• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      He would need some kind of finding of fact in the US to support that, and that hasn’t happened AFAIK yet. The ICC has made that finding, but it wouldn’t be legally supportable to use that finding to withhold appropriated funding.

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        6 months ago

        You mean like our intelligence agencies finding Israel’s claims to be “low confidence”

        The literal second he tells the CIA to hand him the unedited file it’s over.

        • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
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          6 months ago

          In fact the US is so NOT a member of the ICC that it’s currently federal law that if a US soldier was being held at the Hague, the US military would be obligated to invade The Netherlands in order to recover them