By: Georg Felis

I think we need to raise one level of abstraction on this. If it were beneficial to the present administration and to the IMF to get DSK out of the country and back to relative safety in France, the IMF would assert immunity, the US administration would grant it, and DSK would be on a plane back to Paris in about 20 minutes. Only later would it be found that there was no real basis for immunity, a great amount of “Oh gee, we missed that, so sad, too bad” would be spread around, and possible one lower-level US functionary would be sacrificed on the altar of Public Opinion. (Thus showing Washington and the Mayans had something in common in the abstract)
As long as the mud that splatters from this falls only on the French and the IMF, the administration will be more than happy to keep DSK in his proper location. Prison. If it looks like the splatter will start to hit anybody important in Washington (which I don’t see it happening), he will be out of here faster than you can get a film crew to the airport.