Anonymous ID: e6f23e March 12, 2025, 7:56 p.m. No.22750494   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0598 >>0977 >>1109 >>1171

https://www.rt.com/news/614087-bosnia-serb-leader-arrest-warrant/

 

Arrest warrant issued for Bosnian Serb leadership

Bosnian authorities seek to jail the president, PM and parliament speaker of Republika Srpska

 

Bosnian prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for the president, prime minister, and parliament speaker of Republika Srpska, the predominantly-Serb region within Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are accused of having launched an “attack on the constitutional order” by enacting laws that restrict the operations of Bosnia’s state-level judiciary and law enforcement agencies.

 

Following a brutal civil war that pitted the former Yugoslav region’s ethno-religious groups against one another, Bosnia and Herzegovina was divided into two self-governing entities, the ethnically Serbian Republika Srpska and a federation run by Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and Croats, under the US-brokered 1995 Dayton Agreement.

 

As part of this arrangement, the country is ruled by a three-member presidency – a Bosniak, a Serb, and a Croat – and includes an autonomous district at a key crossroads.

 

The warrants were issued despite Banja Luka, the administrative center of Serb-majority Republika Srpska, not recognizing the authority of the Sarajevo-based Prosecutor’s Office.

 

The country’s Prosecutor’s Office issued the order after Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister Radovan Viskovic and Parliament Speaker Nenad Stevandic failed to respond to two summonses for questioning, Serb Republic television reported, citing the regional government.

 

A Sarajevo-based court last month sentenced Dodik to one year in prison and barred him from holding presidential office for six years for obstructing decisions made by Bosnia’s constitutional court and defying the authority of international envoy Christian Schmidt. A German national, Schmidt was formally tasked with overseeing the implementation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement.

 

Dodik himself did not attend his sentencing and announced plans for the Republika Srpska National Assembly to reject the court’s decision and prohibit the enforcement of any rulings made by Bosnia’s state judiciary within its territory.

 

Bosnian Serb lawmakers passed legislation that bans the central judiciary and police from operating within Republika Srpska. Bosnia’s Constitutional Court temporarily suspended the laws on March 6, pending a final ruling, but Dodik insisted that the new laws must be implemented.

 

Radovan Kovacevic, the spokesman for Dodik’s party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, denied that President Dodik or Republika Srpska had “attacked” Bosnia’s constitutional order.

 

“No one will arrest or can arrest the state leadership of Republika Srpska. Republika Srpska is not attacking the constitutional order; on the contrary, it is making decisions that it has the right to make, based on the constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska,” Kovacevic said.

 

Commenting on the move, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has asserted that Serbia will prevent the detention of Republika Srpska’s top officials and described the order by the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a continuous attempt at revenge against Dodik.

 

“This is revenge against Milorad Dodik and revenge against the Serbs,” Vulin claimed.

 

The Prosecutor’s Office has the authority to summon individuals for questioning up to two times. If they fail to comply, a detention order may be issued. If Dodik, Stevandic, and Vickovic resist detention, a national arrest warrant could follow

Anonymous ID: e6f23e March 12, 2025, 9:37 p.m. No.22751007   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1109 >>1171

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-pseudonym-emails-put-sensitive-information-risk-hackers

 

Obama briefing memos, sensitive foreign conversations forwarded to Biden private email, memos show

 

Experts say new tranche of emails released by National Archives show U.S. information put at security risk.

 

Briefing materials for President Barack Obama, subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings and discussions about sensitive conversations with foreign leaders and even fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts were forwarded to Joe Biden's private pseudonymous email accounts when he was vice president, according to a new tranche of documents turned over to Just the News by the National Archives.

 

Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden's insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk.

 

“The new set of emails from Joe Biden's time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations,” former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz told Just the News.

 

Several hundred pages of emails from 2011 to 2015 were released to Just the News and its public interest law firm partner the Southeastern Legal Foundation as part on an ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation.

 

They build on prior evidence that then-Vice President Biden was using the pseudonymous accounts for sensitive discussions with close advisors about official business ranging from domestic politics to sensitive foreign policy matters.

 

Just the News has not been able yet to determine if any of them were "classified," in part because many documents were redacted or withheld in their entirety except for subject line. For instance, one fully withheld email from January 19, 2015, includes the subject "The President's Briefing Materials."

 

Applicable federal regulations aren't limited to classified material, and instead strictly limit federal employees' use of commercial email to conduct government business.

 

As for the contents, each federal agency has its own definition of "sensitive." The U.S. Air Force, for example calls it "controlled unclassified information" in a memo about email, while the U.S. Department of Labor is even more restrictive, directing federal employees to "NOT use your personal email or social media accounts for official matters. This raises record-keeping issues and potentially puts confidential information at risk."

"He didn't care about document security"

 

Security experts say the use of a private email for government business, which is restricted by federal regulations, opens the door for adversaries to gather intelligence on the key decision makers and represents an entirely preventable breach. That, coupled with Biden's admitted storage of classified documents at his home, raises concerns.

 

“Just like the classified documents Biden stored in his garage and home office, he again proved he didn't care about document security," Fleitz said. "Biden's use of a gmail alias email address for work-related emails (robinware45@gmail.com) put sensitive government emails on gmail servers where they could easily have been hacked.”

 

Fleitz reviewed about two dozen emails pulled from the collection by Just the News and said, “I am concerned that the text of at least eight of the emails was withheld, probably due to classified content.”

 

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., the chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said the Archives stonewalled his earlier effort to probe Biden's private emails and vowed to get to the bottom of whether any laws were broken.

 

“Over the last several years, Senator Grassley and I pressed the Biden White House and the National Archives for information and records on Joe Biden’s use of pseudonyms and personal email addresses for official government business,” Johnson told Just the News. “The Biden administration failed to respond to those requests.

 

“The public deserves to know what Joe Biden received and sent in his official capacity on his non-government email accounts, whether his actions jeopardized national security, and if he violated any federal record-keeping and archival requirements,” he said

 

Nearly all federal agencies prohibit or restrict government employees from using private emails to ensure compliance with the Federal Records Act, the law that requires federal records to be preserved and available for public inspection. If officials do use private email for their work, they are obligated to forward the information to their work accounts to ensure their preservation.

 

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