Pentagon Blocks Sharing Evidence of Possible Russian War Crimes With Hague Court

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/pentagon-war-crimes-hague.html

Free link: https://archive.ph/SAhdh

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence with the International Criminal Court in The Hague gathered by American intelligence agencies about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to current and former officials briefed on the matter.

American military leaders oppose helping the court investigate Russians because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for it to prosecute Americans. The rest of the administration, including intelligence agencies and the State and Justice Departments, favors sharing the evidence with the court, the officials said.

President Biden has yet to resolve the impasse, officials said.

The evidence is said to include details relevant to an investigation the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, began after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago. The information reportedly includes material about decisions by Russian officials to deliberately target civilian infrastructure and to abduct thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territory.

[Takket]

1. WTF is this shit?

We don’t want to provide evidence because someday there might be sone genocide we want to get away with???

Biden needs to have whoever made that absurd call kicked out of the military. He’s the CNC. they can’t override shit if the White House says to do it.

This is absurd

[elleng]

3. This has been the U.S.' point of view forever, re: International Tribunals.

[Marcus IM]

4. Don't forget that the US bombed several Red Cross hospitals in Afghanistan and Syria multiple times.

Not to mention the legality of the US invasion of Iraq and subsequent mass murders that followed.

Oh ... forgot the US ball team private jets flying suspects to CIA black-site torture chambers.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The US has committed war crimes.

What we did in Gitmo is pure evil.