Reply #26: Are you an American citizen?

[VermeerLives]

If so, did you have a diplomatic passport? You state that you were "offered work with the State Department in Botswana". In what capacity? What were you doing in Botswana? If you are not a U.S. citizen you would not get any sort of immunity (and you would not be considered a diplomat).

Consular "employees" and consular "service staff" can mean local hires, i.e., citizens of the host country. As you surely know, U.S. embassies around the world hire locals for many jobs, including in the consulates (an unfortunate practice, I might add). In that case they would not have diplomatic immunity and obviously would not carry a U.S. passport, diplomatic or otherwise. If you were an American local hire, you would not have diplomatic immunity, either. If you were a Foreign Service Officer, you would have a dip passport and immunity.

"Mr. Davis is believed to be in the second group." Believed by whom? Sources please.

Raymond Davis is an American citizen who carries a diplomatic passport. Our own State Department declared that Davis had diplomatic immunity.