America and the Global Stage: Mike Pompeo 2025

Your a piece of shit Pompaeo.


Threatening of the International Criminal Court

On March 17, 2020, Pompeo threatened two staff members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Phakiso Mochochoko and ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's in their effort to use the ICC to investigate Americans. Pompeo claimed that they were putting Americans at risk, and intimidated them that the US could act against them, as well as other ICC personnel and their families.[123]

Initially the ICC decision had given a decision to approve an investigation into US crimes in Afghanistan for the victims in the hope of justice on March 5, 2020.[124] Conditions however included restrictions on the issuance of visas on Mike Pompeo´s instruction from the Department of State.

Immediately after the March 5 decision, Pompeo disparaged the court. The ensuing comments against the ICC staffers were even more pointed. These threats were to used to distract from the US´s failure to hold to account perpetrators of torture and other mistreatment in CIA "black sites" throughout Afghanistan, Poland, Romania, and Lithuania where the ICC had the authority to investigate.[125]

Eventually, sanctions were applied to the ICC´s personnel without giving the specific reasons other than that they were "specially designated nationals" which would have categorized them within same groupings of terrorists and narcotics traffickers. On june 11, 2020, Trump issued executive order Executive Order 13928, Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated With the International Criminal Court. In parallel, while this impeded the ICC investigations in Afghanistan and associated "black site" countries where the Americans had allegedly carried out torture. Concurrently the US also opposed ICC scrutiny of potential Israeli crimes against Palestinians as part of an investigation that also looked into abuses carried out by Israel.[126]