Trump OKs sanctions against International Criminal Court employees

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

President Trump lobbed a broadside attack Thursday against the International Criminal Court by authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials and those of allied nations, including Israel, for possible war crimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Trump’s executive order marked his administration’s latest attack against international organizations, treaties and agreements that don’t hew to its policies. It would block the financial assets of court employees and bar those employees and their immediate relatives from entering the United States.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo denounced The Hague-based tribunal as a “kangaroo court” that has been unsuccessful and inefficient in its mandate to prosecute war crimes. He said that the U.S. would punish the ICC employees for any investigation or prosecution of Americans in Afghanistan and added that they could also be banned for prosecuting Israelis for alleged abuses against Palestinians.

Pompeo’s comments were echoed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Atty. Gen. William Barr and national security advisor Robert O’Brien, who spoke at a State Department announcement of the new measures. Barr also announced that the U.S. would investigate possible corruption within the ICC hierarchy that he said raised suspicions that Russia and other adversaries could be interfering in the investigatory process.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-11/trump-oks-sanctions-against-international-tribunal-employees

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This administration is working feverishly to make the USA the most despised country in the world.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. Jeez. Is there no end to his dumbfuckery?

[maxsolomon]

4. No, and there won't be.

Every institution, international or domestic, that resists their Bircher Know-Nothingism will be attacked and dismantled until the day he leaves office.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. Too true. But at least he can't dismantle or defund the ICC, just harrass the employees, because we

are not signatories to the Rome Statute.

[lagomorph777]

15. Dammit we have to jail that criminal as quickly as possible.

[Renew Deal]

2. He's going full war criminal.

[Firestorm49]

3. Cover up, cover up, cover up! Crook!

[Newest Reality]

5. Let's go full rogue.

It seems that the plan is to make sure that no crimes by these criminals can be held accounted for.

On with the atrocities! War is peace.

[ancianita]

6. The U.S. is not a signatory of the Rome Statute of I.C.C. So sanctions sound like a joke to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

But technically, his crew of thugs are not "rogue," only because this country was never a signatory.

That doesn't mean that Trump can actually keep anyone from bringing these men to justice. If the ICC wants to prosecute them, it's got the means to play their cat and mouse game until they're brought in.

[sakabatou]

8. Putin must be grinning

[bobbieinok]

9. I thought US refused to join court under W b/c we feared they might prosecute us

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Am I mixing up some groups

[ancianita]

12. You're right. The U.S. and 6 other countries refused to be signatories to the I.C.C.

[Bayard]

10. Thinking of kids in cages.....

Among other things.

[Old Terp]

11. Is there some way that on Jan. 20 we can pack up Trump and his toadies and send them to The Hague?

We can also throw in his tacky gold furnishings.

[ancianita]

13. They only go on two conditions

1. Biden and Congress have to agree to become signatories of the Rome Statute of the I.C.C., and

2. The U.S. has to prove that it has lacked the court system to prosecute Trump or these other men.

The first won't happen, and the second won't, either, because we do have the court system to prosecute him.

So turning to the Hague won't happen.

[TomVilmer]

14. ... and The Hague Invasion Act is still active, since 2002

The American Service-Members' Protection Act of 2002 empowers the president to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/america-war-crimes-1.3854247

[eShirl]

16. Lame duck gotta cram as much evil as he can into his time left.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. This is fucking outrageous. It's an act of war on the international system.

Sanctioning family members of people doing a peaceful job of investigating violent crime. This is mafia-level immorality.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

18. Criminals in the republican

Party who violate human rights and international laws want the ICC to not touch their psychopath asses. So they try to harm the ICC.
I wish every republican criminal to be tried and be held accountable in the ICC . Maybe Biden can make that happen for every high rank republican criminal still alive.

One can dream...

[ALBliberal]

19. Day 1: have all the paperwork ready to go to reverse

every EO. Will take Biden days to sign them all.

[mgardener]

20. This is not the actions

Of a country who has nothing to hide.
We cannot take 4 more years of this man.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Because he a criminal