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We're not talking about terrorists or Nazis here. Do you really think we'd be sending Seal Team Six to get some guy who scammed the lottery? He didn't even catch federal charges.

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Against a Madoff perhaps, yes. But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US.

The FBI don't operate outside the US. It would be the CIA if anyone.

The FBI does operate overseas: https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/internati...

Here's an article on using the FBI as more or less another branch of special forces: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/insid...

I seem to remember Brandon Webb's book "the red circle" where he relates FBI agents were attached to seal teams to do forensics in theater after operations.

Which is just another example of how government expands its scope and rarely ever contracts.

> But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US.

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. They don't operate at all outside the US. :)

Say what? The FBI definitely operates outside the US.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/legal-attache-offices

Technically, those embassies are still in U.S. jurisdiction, however, I grant you your point as I was unaware they did this.

They investigate crimes overseas all the time. They investigated that situation where three US special forces guys were shot by a Jordanian military police for example.

After requesting and receiving special permission from Jordanian authorities.

If you aren't a threat to lives on american soil, there is no amount of financial crime that will earn you extraordinary rendition. It isn't worth the diplomatic relations, nor the risk of life for the people who would be grabbing you.

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