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> Unless we accept that US jurisdiction span well beyond their borders Hypothetically, if an Italian citizen, living in Italy, hired an American hitman to kill
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Unless we accept that US jurisdiction span well beyond their borders
Hypothetically, if an Italian citizen, living in Italy, hired an American hitman to kill someone in the US, would it be unjust for the US government to ask the Italian government to extradite the Italian?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoTwo things. First, in your hypothetical the crime and I believe the hiring take place in America, while if memory serves Manning was in Afghanistan during their communication. Second, Italy presumably has a law against hiring hitmen. Printing classified US documents is unlikely to violate any Italian law.
- foldr 5y agoIt seems unlikely that Italy doesn’t have any legal protections for government secrets. I don’t think it’s so clear that the “dual criminality” requirement would only be satisfied if Italy had laws against publishing documents classified by the US government. You could try to argue that, but it seems a rather pedantic semantic argument. I also wouldn’t necessarily assume that Italian law only covers Italian government documents. For example, the Official Secrets Act in the UK can apply to intelligence information more broadly in some cases. Anyway, extradition cases like this tend to raise quite complex legal issues, and the way the law works isn’t always very intuitive or in line with what you might think is fair and just.