Anonymous ID: 59e8c8 Sept. 11, 2018, 4:43 a.m. No.2973255   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45474864

 

Mr Bolton said neither Afghanistan nor any government signatory to the ICC's statute had requested an investigation.

 

However, ICC prosecutors also have the ability to take independent action, although any prosecutions must be approved by a panel of judges.

 

The second area Mr Bolton addressed was the Palestinian move to bring Israel before the ICC over allegations of human rights abuses in Gaza and the occupied West Bank - a move dismissed by Israel as politicised.

 

Mr Bolton said the Palestinian move was one of the reasons the US administration had decided to close the Palestinians' diplomatic mission in Washington.

Anonymous ID: 59e8c8 Sept. 11, 2018, 5:07 a.m. No.2973385   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/jeff-sessions-george-papadopoulos-democrats/index.html

 

But Democrats, so far, are reticent about raising a fuss over the discrepancy – even though they strongly oppose Sessions' tenure atop the Justice Department. Democrats say they want Sessions to remain in the job because he is recused from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is overseeing. A new attorney general could take the reins and potentially curtail the Mueller probe – or deny Mueller's report on the probe from ever being released to the public, they fear.