re: Lochte and his buddies lied (according to Brazilian police officials)

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When did it become unreasonable to question whether a foreign country can detain US citizens and revoke their passports when charges haven't even been filed? Or any non-Brazilian for that matter.

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Just because you're a foreigner doesn't exempt you from obeying local laws. U.S. citizen or otherwise. Charges don't have to be filed to restrict someone from leaving. I don't know why you continue to be so hung up in this point and your whole "handle it through the embassy" schtick.

If Brazil "handled it through the embassy," all the swimmers would have gone home and there wouldn't have been a damn thing Brazil could have done about it once they were gone.

Now sure, this is all much ado about nothing, but that doesn't change the fact that a country has the right to enforce their laws.