The diplomat has been charged with trafficking!
What this looks like to me, is some district attorney someplace that has been afflicted with the same kind of mental career related disease that ended the careers of Robert Philobosian over the McMartin pre school case and Mike Nifong over the Duke La Crosse case. These piss ants get some idea in their heads that this one case is going to skyrocket their careers into the presidency someday. Then they act like fools.
Even if the diplomat broke a regulatory law, this was not the way to handle it. The way to handle it is to contact the state department and report "a situation" then let them handle it. The reason why this is the way to handle these kinds of minor violations is because anything else pisses off entire countries and ends up excactly the way this is ending up.
Even at this late date, the diplomat has been transferred into a position where she has complete immunity and the DA is still vowing maximum prosecution. This is going to set up a truly massive violation of international law that has the potential of expanding WAY beyond India. No country will feel their diplomats are safe here and no country will guarantee the safety of our diplomats. John Kerry seems to have totally forgotten his position as Secretary of State and expresses regret like his powerless. It has now escalated and progressed to the point where obama had to go on vacation rather than step in and take control before India gets our Embassy bombed to smithereens.
What should happen? James Comey as director of the FBI should have his agents appear at the office of the district attorney and assume jurisdiction. Then, recognizing the authority of the Indian court, the charges against the diplomat be dropped, and local police cooperate with Indian authorities in apprehending the maid and her family. John Kerry, as head of the state department needs to revoke those T visas immediately. They should never have been issued in the first place and order the lot of them deported. That will greatly help the Indian police in taking the lot of them back to India to stand trial.
That's the way grown ups handle the situation.
I do not think India is interested in getting the US embassy bombed. On the contrary, India ordered purchase of few more expensive airplanes from Lockheed Martin in the middle of this so called diplomatic spat. It is bizarre but true.
They took down the barriers ya fucking idiot....what "interests" them is messing with our embassy security....what's stopping a truck-bomber now...some of their sacred cows?
You are not a very bright person. There was no need for the barricade to begin with as the US embassy was never in any danger. There are other embassies right next to American embassies and they are doing fine without disrupting the commuter traffic by erecting barricade on the public street.
I do not think barricades are coming back unless Washington will accord the same courtesy to Indian embassy. I hope I am wrong though.