Quote Originally Posted by Wraith View Post
I should have chosen my words more carefully, I didn't mean actual policy. Standard practice would have been better.

I'll take your word for it. I did wind up looking for examples of similar cases, but the only ones I could find from this century were two instances from Pakistan where immunity was not waived and it probably would have been a bad idea. We have demanded other countries waive immunity when we were on the opposite end of this though, and they've done it.
The US is not known for its distaste of hypocrisy. It has no problem requesting a waiver even if it wouldn't grant one. In the case of the Georgian diplomat you referred to, the case was somewhat different in that he was driving drunk, but I take your point.

I'm sure there are more cases, but the last time I found the US granting a waiver to the UK was in 1940 when a US diplomat was a spy for the Nazis - and if they had been able to prosecute him, they probably wouldn't have waived immunity. That's a pretty high bar.