JAIME J. YAMBAO

US National Security Adviser John Bolton recent threat against International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda makes President Duterte’s threat against the same person seem quite restrained. Both of them threatened her with arrest and incarceration. But in addition, Mr. Bolton would ban Bensouda from entering the United States and have her bank accounts frozen or confiscated. Then raising his fury to a higher level, he vowed to wreck the financial system of the ICC and bring about the demise of the court, which is “already dead to the United States, anyway.” (Bolton’s fuse exploded because the ICC prosecutor has been asked to investigate crimes, including torture, allegedly committed by members of the US military and intelligence in Afghanistan.)

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