Why is the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland visiting Ukraine? To form a new team to investigate war crimes, of course.
>> Declaring there is "no hiding place for war criminals," Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday said the Justice Department had formed a new team to investigate war crimes and other atrocities committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
>> Garland announced the War Crimes Accountability Team during an unannounced visit to Ukraine, where he met with the country's top prosecutor, Iryna Venediktova, just across the Polish-Ukrainian border. The team is expected to centralize the Justice Department's efforts to support investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine, bringing together experts in investigations involving human rights abuses along with technical assistance for criminal prosecutions, evidence collection, and forensics.
>> Leading the team is a longtime Justice Department official, Eli Rosenbaum, who previously spearheaded efforts to track down, denaturalize, and deport Nazi war criminals as director of the Office of Special Investigations. Rosenbaum will be joined by Hope Olds, the acting chief of a Justice Department unit focused on human rights abuses, and prosecutors Christian Levesque, Christina Giffin, and Courtney Urschel.
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