The US Dept. of Justice, unbothered by a sky-rocketing domestic crime rate, suspicious national and local elections, a flood of illegal immigration and endemic financial malfeasance, has decided to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the actions of former president Donald Trump in the incidents that occurred in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 and at his home in August 2022.
The special prosecutor will be Jack Smith, an experienced federal prosecutor who has been a special prosecutor with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands, specializing in the investigation of war crimes in Kosovo, most of which occurred in the late 1990s, over twenty years ago.
There's an interesting element to the latest entry on the C.V. of Mr. Smith. The US is not signatory to the treaties that enable the International Criminal Court, yet maintains relationships with it. The US refusal to ratify the treaties, like a number of other countries, involves problems with the US constitutionality of such treaties and protection of US military personnel from war crime investigation and punishment.
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