Interesting question.  He’s still a State Department employee, and I don’t think the place of employment automatically confers immunity from US law on US citizens.  Besides, deferring to UN rules would go counter to everything his party has been saying about the UN forever; a delicious hypocrisy if they tried to say it did in this case.

(How apt that my captcha word is “snape” when discussing Bolton!”

Like hypocrisy is an unknown entity in this administration.  :-S

I believe Bolton has “partial diplomatic immunity.” Not because he is in the State Department, of course, but because he’s assigned to a diplomatic billet.  My last assignment in the Army was with the Inter-American Defense Board, an international organization based in Washington, DC. I was briefed that I had partial diplomatic immunity which meant I was protected from prosecution by U.S. authorities here in all matters related to the lawful execution of my job. So, I believe Bolton probably has a similar status and is accorded no privilege regarding the Plame case (and who knows what else?)

Thanks, dk. That’s reassuring, assuming that they will all play by the rules and not make them up as they go along. It’s not as though there is any precedent for that with this crew....

Of course, I expect to see Presidential pardons somewhere down the road, so discussing rules and protocol is probably merely academic.

I’ve come to believe that all rules of physics, truth, and morality have been suspended. Gravity no longer exists because up is the new down and truth and morality are what they want them to be. Logic is no longer operative and it’s all surreal.

I hadn’t realized how much I depended on rules and logic and gravity until these failed statesmen arrived on the scene. Now it feels like floating in a terrible limbo.