Caveat-- I love 24 and really enjoy the show.
That said, there has been a terrorist planned nuclear meltdown, Air Force One was shot down and the Pres is in a Coma, there is an armed Nuke ready to launch and the Secretary of State thinks its important to allow an investigator from the Chinese Consolate to question CTU agents in the middle of everything so as not to upset the Chinese government.
Am I wrong in thinking that if all this was going on and the person with information to stopping it was in the consolate, that the Gov't SHOULD HAVE GONE ON TV and announced that they were raiding the embassy to get the guy if he wasn't handed over in 5 minutes.