Real "diplomats" with diplomat passports have diplomatic immunity. This means they are immune from having to undergo certain inconveniences that "normal" people might be subjected to. I would think that anal swabbing easily falls into that category.
So if these Joe Biden "diplomats" don't actually have diplomat passports, what would that tell us? Is it possible that these folks are not "officially" diplomats? Is it possible that these folks are not officially "recognized" as being diplomats because they don't have the passport of a diplomat? If that is true, and I am speculating here, why don't they have diplomatic passports? Could it be that they are not legally entitled to a diplomatic passport? If so why not?
I think there is some digging to do on this topic. I'm having difficulty understanding how the U.S. Gov't can allow such a thing to happen, and then to have it get out in the news. Something doesn't smell right.
What would qualify someone to have diplomatic immunity? For example, I have a friend that works for one of the alphabet agencies and is stationed in an embassy abroad, would she have it?
Most likely. But it may also depend on what they are doing.
My family and I, each had two passports during our last overseas assignment. Official and Tourist. For instance, when I was traveling "for leisure" overseas with my family, we were supposed to use our tourist passport for checking into hotels, flights etc... When I was on duty or in an official capacity, I was supposed to use my official passport. Same for my family. They could use their official passport when they were traveling at the direction of the gov't. Examples were, traveling to the US and back on Gov't orders as a student, or for a family funeral, mid tour trip, etc... any time they had official orders use the official passport.
I would think folks who work in the "other services" also hold more then one passport and what passport they use depends on the situation, but I am uncertain.
The rules we used were the State Dept. Regulations, DoD Instructions, and the US CFR.