Anonymous ID: 78f170 July 30, 2019, 12:09 p.m. No.7262342   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2356 >>2388

HILLARY CLINTON, as Secretary of State, would have needed to maintain regular contact with the Red Cross.

 

The International Committee of the Red Cross is a nongovernmental agency. Its primary purpose is not disaster relief, although that’s certainly one of its important functions and one of its more visible ones. Rather, the primary function of the ICRC is to "protect" victims of international and internal armed conflict.

 

One of the ways that it advances this is through "protecting" the rights of prisoners of war, and in this role it is the agency that acts to ensure that combatant parties observe the conditions of the Geneva Conventions that relate to providing medical care and humane treatment to prisoners of war.

 

The Geneva Conventions require each contracting party to have a national organization, associated with the ICRC, with the obligation to carry out these duties of the Conventions within that nation.

 

In the United States, that organization is the American Red Cross, as set forth in 36 U.S. Code § 300102.

 

Given the uniquely special role that the American Red Cross plays in keeping the United States in compliance with these treaty obligations, a liaison is needed - Secretary of State (as America’s top diplomat).