From the
Independent:
The United States aims to secure agreements "with every country in the world" guaranteeing immunity for its citizens from any prosecution from the new International Criminal Court (ICC), and will cut off military aid to countries which do not comply.
In an uncompromising defence of Washington's decision to shun the court, Under Secretary of State John Bolton announced yesterday that the US has already reached so-called Article 98 exemption agreements, under the Rome statutes setting up the ICC, with 70 countries; 50 of them among the ICC's 90 signatories.
In this country, the Patriot Act allows citizens to be jailed without due process. And outside of the country, the government is insisting that Americans must not be prosecuted for war crimes they might commit.
Holy cow.