John Bolton Tries To Prevent His Pals From Being Prosecuted For War Crimes

John Bolton told the International Criminal Court recently that they better not investigate any of the war crimes committed by the United States. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this issue.

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John Bolton told the International Criminal Court recently that they better not investigate any of the war crimes committed by the United States. Okay now, let's think about that just a second. We have this body, this international body, that that's their job.

Yeah.

We're going to investigate Idi Amin, we're going to investigate Assad, we're going to investigate ... If you do wrong anywhere in the world and it looks like a war crime, we're going to investigate you. But Bolton, that weird, peculiar, odd ball of a character that Trump appointed, in a very scarious position, this guy has a lot of power so what he's trying to do is he's trying to bully his way and say don't investigate anybody. Now one person, you and I have talked about, there's a lot of people they can investigate, they can investigate Chaney ...

Bolton, himself.

Bolton, himself, I was just going to go there. Chaney, Bolton, all of the people that were involved in Iraq. One person that I want to bring out here though, it's just such an irony to me is you have all of the Progressives, oh we love Brennan. Now how many stories did we do about Brennan when before the Liberals embraced him as being such an important character, before he appeared on Bill Mayer and Bill Mayer's trying to make him look like he's ... this is a really decent guy. You talk about a war criminal ... this guy was a war criminal but now since he speaks out against Trump, all of a sudden ... oh no, he's kind of the darling of the Democratic party. He's like Clapper, the darling of the Democratic party. In other words, the entire spook industry, who Liberals have always had the good sense, myself included, I've always had the good sense to understand they are dangerous.

Go back to the Church hearings, you look at the Church hearings, they'll show you just how dangerous it is when we let the spook industry do what they do. So that's the heart of this story, I gotta promise you. The heart of the Bolton story where he tells ... he says, "Don't investigate war crimes", is because it moves right into the very heart of the United States spook industry. And you know who's in there? Brennan.

You've got Brennan who was one of the architects of the Bush torture regime, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Gina Haspel, whose now the CIA director.

Exactly.

She helped kind of ...

She's an evil, evil woman man.

She perfected the black site, torture spots, ran one of them. And those are the people ... those are all Bolton's friends because he did it with them.

That's the point I'm trying to make.

Yeah.

But it's not ... You want to go to the easy stuff. You want to ... oh, they don't want Chaney investigated, they don't want Bush investigated, no, this is about the spook industry trying to protect the spook industry. We don't want anymore stories like Allende where the United States assassinates Allende after he is elected and Pinochet is then appointed by the United States and he does this horrendous, just the worst kind of dictator, just murderer. Truthfully, if you look at the Pinochet stories, they're blood curdling. We put Pinochet there, okay. There was a time when that was important to Progressives. Progressives would say this is how dangerous the spook industry is. Henry Kissinger made this happen, assassinated Allende, okay.

Now Bolton is saying to the people that would ordinarily look at that, he's saying, "Don't investigate us" because it is the heart of the spook industry. The FBI, the CIA, the NSA, all of these characters they just operate beyond anybody's sight. I think now they're regarded as the Deep State. Sometimes you'll hear them, they're part of the Deep State. Well, the truth is, Bolton is very afraid of independent investigations into that Deep State spook industry. That's what this story's about as I read this.