[investigateworld]

If this is true, somebody's head should roll. But that won't happen.

[james500]

Unless, of course, you come to the conclusion that he's going to spend his time running agents and "monitoring the opposition" whilst he enjoys his new life in the US.

[naturalman1975]

OK - people should bear in mind that at the time this happened, the media here was suggesting Chen was likely to be sent home - even though the Australian government had given no such indication that this was happening - basically the Australian mainstream media was trying to make the government look bad.

Hopefully US diplomats are smarter than mainstream media reporters and realised that it was extremely unlikely that Chen would be sent back, and so didn't grant him asylum because they knew that:

(A) there was no real need to do so at that time.
(B) stealing an ally's defector is rather bad manners.

Taking him if the Australian government had said no, would be one thing.

Taking him while the Australian government was reviewing his case, would be quite another.

[AlexandriaDuke]

Miroslav Medved... Elian Gonzalez...