From Desert_Joe, atJoe.My.God.:
Desert_Joe • 10 hours ago
OT - This tidbit slipped under the radar here today, but it was extremely noticed in Europe. Trump today announced
sanctions against anybody who works for the International Criminal Court, in the Hague.
The Europeans are not happy. But third-world warlords and dictators are probably thrilled.
BeccaM > Desert_Joe • 11 hours ago
President Biden is going to have a very busy first month in office.
Desert_Joe > BeccaM • 11 hours ago
Trump and his admin trying to defund The Hague before they get sent there
National Security
Trump authorizes sanctions targeting International Criminal Court
By Karen
DeYoung and
Carol Morello
June 11, 2020 at 3:04 p.m. EDT
President Trump has signed an executive order authorizing new sanctions against prosecutors and officials of the International Criminal Court after the body
approved investigations of alleged war crimes by U.S. service members and intelligence officers in Afghanistan.
In an unprecedented display of administration firepower, the secretaries of state and defense, along with the attorney general and the national security adviser, jointly announced sanctions against officials of what they called a “corrupt” and “politically motivated” court manipulated by Russia and other U.S. adversaries.
The announcement escalates a long-standing dispute with the Netherlands-based court, established 18 years ago under the Treaty of Rome. The United States has never ratified the treaty or recognized the court’s jurisdiction.
{snip}
The measures announced Thursday include economic sanctions against any ICC officials involved in efforts to investigate “allied personnel without that ally’s consent” and an extension to family members of visa restrictions already in effect against those officials.
{snip}
Karen DeYoung
Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The Post. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and in London and as correspondent covering the White House, U.S. foreign policy and the intelligence community. Follow
https://twitter.com/karendeyoung1
Carol Morello
Carol Morello is the diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the State Department. She previously wrote about demographics and the census. She has worked at The Post since 2000. Before that, she was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today. Follow
https://twitter.com/CMorelloWP
= new reply since forum marked as read