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September 24, 2018
The ACLU Just Got Involved In The Trump Administration’s Fight Against The ICC
The organization wants documents showing the legal analysis behind John Bolton’s threat to sanction International Criminal Court judges who investigate US actions.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents showing the legal analysis underpinning National Security Adviser John Bolton’s declaration earlier this month that the United States would sanction or prosecute International Criminal Court judges or staff who investigated or prosecuted Americans.
The request asks for any communications — including notes, memos, and even social media posts — between President Donald Trump’s inauguration and the present that pertain to the new policy toward the court, which Bolton presented Sept. 10 in a speech to the Federalist Society. The request was sent to both the State Department and to the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ust-got-involved-in-the-trump-administrations
National Security Adviser John Bolton, who famously served as the unconfirmed Ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush, appears to view the UN as a threat to the US on a par with Russia, China or al-Qaeda. When he’s not giving adolescent speeches announcing that the UN’s International Criminal Court is “dead to us” – a grotesque comment about a body whose job is to prosecute the most serious mass killings and war crimes – he’s trying to strain every cent of support for Palestine out of the US budget.
Awkwardly, however, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is trying to advance policies on North Korea and Iran that require cooperation from other leading UN states.
Pompeo’s continuing calls for the North to take key denuclearization steps first are now out of sync not just with China, which has returned to allowing trade and much-needed fuel to flow freely across the border, but also with our South Korean allies, who last week called for a statement ending the Korean War in exchange for North Korea’s promise to shut down a nuclear facility in the presence of international experts.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-an-uneasy-fit-with-american-goals-at-un.html
(More comments about Iran, at link)
The ACLU Just Got Involved In The Trump Administration’s Fight Against The ICC
The organization wants documents showing the legal analysis behind John Bolton’s threat to sanction International Criminal Court judges who investigate US actions.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents showing the legal analysis underpinning National Security Adviser John Bolton’s declaration earlier this month that the United States would sanction or prosecute International Criminal Court judges or staff who investigated or prosecuted Americans.
The request asks for any communications — including notes, memos, and even social media posts — between President Donald Trump’s inauguration and the present that pertain to the new policy toward the court, which Bolton presented Sept. 10 in a speech to the Federalist Society. The request was sent to both the State Department and to the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ust-got-involved-in-the-trump-administrations
National Security Adviser John Bolton, who famously served as the unconfirmed Ambassador to the UN under George W. Bush, appears to view the UN as a threat to the US on a par with Russia, China or al-Qaeda. When he’s not giving adolescent speeches announcing that the UN’s International Criminal Court is “dead to us” – a grotesque comment about a body whose job is to prosecute the most serious mass killings and war crimes – he’s trying to strain every cent of support for Palestine out of the US budget.
Awkwardly, however, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is trying to advance policies on North Korea and Iran that require cooperation from other leading UN states.
Pompeo’s continuing calls for the North to take key denuclearization steps first are now out of sync not just with China, which has returned to allowing trade and much-needed fuel to flow freely across the border, but also with our South Korean allies, who last week called for a statement ending the Korean War in exchange for North Korea’s promise to shut down a nuclear facility in the presence of international experts.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-an-uneasy-fit-with-american-goals-at-un.html
(More comments about Iran, at link)
