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tgv • today at 3:47 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the US govt has no power outside its territory. If some US citizen commits a crime abroad, he/she can be prosecuted outside the US. This does not interfere with US sovereignty.


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ihsw • today at 3:50 PM

> Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the US govt has no power outside its territory.

I don't know what planet you live on but this hasn't been true for the better half of the last century.