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Pompeo: U.S. Could Make Moves Against International Criminal Court in "Coming Days"
(U.S. State Department) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the American Enterprise Institute in a podcast on May 29: "You'll see in the coming days a series of announcements not just from the State Department, from all across the United States Government, that attempt to push back against what the ICC is up to....This is not a court in the sense of what we would understand here in the United States:...independent, with all the rights and due processes." "We also never gave consent, and understand international law, one of the key features of exercise of power by bodies such as the ICC is that you say if you want to be part of that. We never signed up for it....And now this court has become corrupted and is attempting to go after the young men and women of the United States of America who fought so hard, and they did so under the rule of law in the most civilized nation in the world." "We will never let that happen. We're working along many fronts to prevent it from happening. They're doing this not just to us, but to Israel, where they're beginning to look into what took place in the West Bank. Again, it's completely inappropriate, it's completely inconsistent with international law....I think that the ICC and the world will see that we are determined to prevent having Americans and our friends and allies in Israel and elsewhere hauled in by this corrupt ICC."