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Piracy, espionage (spying) etc are crimes and people who commit them are routinely prosecuted in civilian courts.
by LatteLazy 5y ago
Piracy, espionage (spying) etc are crimes and people who commit them are routinely prosecuted in civilian courts.
- Turing_Machine 5y ago> Piracy, espionage (spying) etc are crimes In peacetime, yes. Not in a combat situation.
- LatteLazy 5y agoWell, they're crimes wherever they happen. They don't stop being crimes in combat. A spy is a spy even if people are shooting at him, her, or they. And I'm pretty sure guantanamo isn't a live combat environment...
- redis_mlc 5y agoWell, often they're dropped when questions about methods, like Stingers, or extreme embarrassment, arise. (A UK secretary working for the MoD gave US enrichment secrets to Russia, saving them 4 years in developing the bomb. She was never prosecuted because of the embarrassment. She had been indoctrinated into Marxism by her father, so take that as a warning.)