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#19156529 at 2023-07-10 17:55:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23527: Pedos Be Gone Edition
HCA exec to oversee prosecution of Kosovo war crimes
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By Joel Stinnett - Senior Reporter, Nashville Business Journal
May 8, 2018 Updated May 9, 2018, 9:53am CDT
Jack Smith, HCA Healthcare Inc.'s vice president of litigation, is leaving the hospital giant to lead the prosecution of war crimes in Kosovo.
Smith is the former head of the federal prosecutor's office in Nashville and was with the Department of Justice for 16 years. He joined HCA in September, according to his LinkedIn profile.
As part of the Hague-based Kosovo court, Smith will investigate former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army for war crimes during the country's war for independence from 1998 to 2000. Army members are accused of killings, abductions and sexual violence against ethnic Serbs.
Smith was appointed to lead the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office by the European Union.
In an emailed statement to the Nashville Business Journal, Smith said, "I have tremendous respect for HCA, its culture values and leadership. This is just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me and my family and we're looking forward to this exciting new chapter,"
The court has yet to hear any cases and no indictments have been handed down.
https://archive.ph/if1B6
#18699141 at 2023-04-15 14:36:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22941: EBAKEk Edition
The Specialist Prosecutor is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the Specialist Chambers and is independent in the performance of his or her functions.
Jack Smith (click to download)
The Specialist Prosecutor is Jack Smith,a US prosecutor with experience in both high-level political investigations and international criminal investigations. He was appointed on 7 May 2018 in succession to David Schwendiman, and took office on 11 September 2018. Mr Smith was previously Vice President and Head of Litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America, the largest non-governmental health-care provider in the United States, a position he had been in since September 2017.
Between February 2015 and August 2017, Mr Smith served as First Assistant US Attorney and Acting US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Between 2010 and 2015, Mr Smith served as Chief of the Public Integrity Section of the US Department of Justice, supervising the litigation of complex public corruption cases across the United States.
From 2008 to 2010, Mr Smith served as Investigation Coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In that capacity, he supervised sensitive investigations of foreign government officials and militia for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Mr Smith joined the ICC from the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he served for nine years in a number of positions, including Chief of Criminal Litigation and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. As Chief of Criminal Litigation, Mr Smith supervised approximately 100 criminal prosecutors across a range of programme areas, including public corruption, terrorism, violent crime and gangs, as well as white collar and complex financial fraud.
Before becoming an Assistant US Attorney, Mr Smith served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office wherehe was a member of the Office's Sex Crimesand Domestic Violence Units.
Mr Smith has received a number of awards during the course of his career. These include the US Department of Justice Director's Award; the US Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service; the Federal Bar Association's Younger Federal Attorney Award; the Eastern District Association's Charles Rose Award; the Henry L. Stimson Medal of the New York County Bar Association; and a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellowship.
He is a graduate of both Harvard Law School and the State University of New York at Oneonta.
Mr Smith was reappointed Specialist Prosecutor for a second four-year term on 8 May 2022.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221118193247/https://www.scp-ks.org/en/spo/specialist-prosecutor
#16413728 at 2022-06-08 12:38:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20764: Delving the Finer Points of Sovereignty and Treason Edition
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12:00 PM EDT
Rent Stabilization: Local Approaches to Advance Tenant Stability
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Urban Land Institute Minnesota
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/events/2022/rent-stabilization-local-approaches-to-advance-tenant-stability
12:00 PM EDT
War Crimes in Ukraine: The Pursuit of International Justice - H.R. McMaster in conversation with David Schwendiman
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
https://www.hoover.org/events/war-crimes-ukraine-pursuit-international-justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOY7mXgLQOc
12:00 PM EDT
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
House Armed Services Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114816
https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=85FCB6FA-DB57-442D-8795-DD0570DCF7FA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFtu3Ra0B0
12:30 PM EDT
Strengthening Black Sea Security and Defense in a New Era
The Atlantic Council
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/strengthening-black-sea-security-and-defense/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb9V9Etr9wk
12:30 PM EDT
Secretary Blinken leads a meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group in Los Angeles, California.
(POOLED CAMERA SPRAY AT TOP)
The camera spray will be live-streamed on www.state.gov and www.YouTube.com/statedept
1:00 PM EDT
Closed Briefing on Russian Cyber Threats
House Foreign Affairs Committee
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=7A50776A-3870-4133-AD7F-5DBC57F307D3
1:00 PM EDT
Press Briefing
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Los Angeles, California
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
1:30 PM EDT
Advancing Equitable Access to Affordable Capital and Credit for Native Americans and Tribal Communities and Organizations in North Carolina
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Whole Community Health Initiative-Kenan Flagler Business School, and UNC Public Policy
https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/community/events/2022-05-17-aea-native-americans-tribal.html
1:45 PM EDT
Defense Official Speaks at Symposium
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks talks to Jim Mitre, acting deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, about accelerating data and artificial intelligence during DOD's virtual Digital and AI Symposium.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=28981
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/28981
2:00 PM EDT
Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
House Armed Services Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114815
https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=454FB23E-DDA6-4CF4-B066-7A1CD8FD6E03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KjWvB5AGRY
2:00 PM EDT
Fiscal year 2023 Budget Request: United Nations and International Organizations
House Foreign Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114866
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=9E868919-FD88-4E96-B639-453CB859A655
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WctKCiMAkqk
2:30 PM EDT
Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters
Senate Intelligence (Select) Committee
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/closed-briefing-intelligence-matters-399
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332669
2:30 PM EDT
The Small Business Workforce Challenge: Causes, Impacts and Solutions
Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332670
https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=745726FB-DEBD-4F12-9519-919759FD4E53
2:30 PM EDT
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member, and to be Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors, and Jaime E. Lizarraga, of Virginia, and Mark Toshiro Uyeda, of California, both to be a Member, all of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332680
https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/06/03/2022/executive-session
2:30 PM EDT
Secretary Blinken, Canadian Foreign Minister M?lanie Joly, and Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes participate in a panel discussion at the Civil Society Forum in Los Angeles, California.
https://www.youtube.com/c/StateDept
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#6394080 at 2019-05-02 18:15:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8176: National Day of Prayer Edition
Baker-
I popped this in the bread last night and it didn't gain any traction. Seems relevant given Huber met with him yesterday and he has a past in WAR CRIMES.
Utah native David Schwendiman is leaving his job as chief war crimes prosecutor in The Hague two years before his four-year term expires because of a U.S. law that limits his tenure.
It marks the second time that Schwendiman, highly regarded as a respected and professional prosecutor, has either had to leave a critical job early or been passed over under unusual circumstances.
The first time came in 2010, when Schwendiman, a longtime prosecutor and administrator in both the Utah attorney general's office and the U.S. attorney's office, was yanked from consideration for the U.S. attorney for Utah post after widespread speculation he was a lock for the job.
He enjoyed strong bipartisan support from Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and then-Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson. When his name was dropped from the list, many of his supporters were surprised.
The reasons were never disclosed, but speculation surfaced that Matheson had angered the Obama White House by casting several votes against administration-backed bills, including the health care overhaul, so the Utah Democrat's choice for U.S. attorney was pulled as retaliation.
This time, Schwendiman's fate is tied to a U.S. law that governs his role as a special prosecutor under the authority of the European Union.
He had been a war crimes prosecutor before - after years as a federal prosecutor in the United States - and had retired from the Justice Department.
Schwendiman resumed federal employment in 2015 with the State Department to accept the chief prosecutor position to investigate and hold accountable those who committed war crimes in Kosovo during the 1990s conflict with Serbia.
Under laws spelled out for returning retirees, he could maintain that status for only three years, but his appointment as chief war crimes prosecutor in 2016 was to a four-year term. He told The Guardian in a Feb. 28 story that the Obama administration had assured him his service would be extended so he could complete his term in The Hague.
With the change in administration, however, no such extension has been issued.
The Guardian story said that with Schwendiman's planned March 31 departure, there seems to be a vacuum in the Kosovo court with no successor ready to take over.
In an official statement, however, Schwendiman expressed confidence that the mission will continue efficiently, and he cast no blame on the Trump administration for the reasons he is leaving.
"I have just been informed by the U.S. Department of State that my three-year term as Senior Foreign Service officer will end on 31 March, 2018," his statement said. "As a result, my [position] as the specialist prosecutor cannot be extended. This must happen because the U.S. administration is unable to overlook my status as a retiree called back into service - something the law won't let me change regardless how much I might want to stay."
He praised the European Union for the speed in which it has begun its search for a new prosecutor and said the strong staff is prepared to carry on under an interim chief until that appointment is made.
"I am not resigning," he said. "In truth, I would be delighted if U.S. law permitted me to stay. But it won't and I must, as a consequence, and very reluctantly, leave a position that I am both proud and honored to hold."
So the University of Utah graduate now has had to oblige decisions affecting his career on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - neither having anything to do with his qualifications or his performance.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/03/09/rolly-elite-utah-prosecutor-once-again-loses-out-on-a-prestigious-post-through-no-fault-of-his-own/
https://faculty.utah.edu/u0032484-David_J_Schwendiman/hm/index.hml
https://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0032484
#6390144 at 2019-05-02 06:01:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8171: Digital Soldiers. The Night Vision Edition
Utah native David Schwendiman is leaving his job as chief war crimes prosecutor in The Hague two years before his four-year term expires because of a U.S. law that limits his tenure.
It marks the second time that Schwendiman, highly regarded as a respected and professional prosecutor, has either had to leave a critical job early or been passed over under unusual circumstances.
The first time came in 2010, when Schwendiman, a longtime prosecutor and administrator in both the Utah attorney general's office and the U.S. attorney's office, was yanked from consideration for the U.S. attorney for Utah post after widespread speculation he was a lock for the job.
He enjoyed strong bipartisan support from Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and then-Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson. When his name was dropped from the list, many of his supporters were surprised.
The reasons were never disclosed, but speculation surfaced that Matheson had angered the Obama White House by casting several votes against administration-backed bills, including the health care overhaul, so the Utah Democrat's choice for U.S. attorney was pulled as retaliation.
This time, Schwendiman's fate is tied to a U.S. law that governs his role as a special prosecutor under the authority of the European Union.
He had been a war crimes prosecutor before - after years as a federal prosecutor in the United States - and had retired from the Justice Department.
Schwendiman resumed federal employment in 2015 with the State Department to accept the chief prosecutor position to investigate and hold accountable those who committed war crimes in Kosovo during the 1990s conflict with Serbia.
Under laws spelled out for returning retirees, he could maintain that status for only three years, but his appointment as chief war crimes prosecutor in 2016 was to a four-year term. He told The Guardian in a Feb. 28 story that the Obama administration had assured him his service would be extended so he could complete his term in The Hague.
With the change in administration, however, no such extension has been issued.
The Guardian story said that with Schwendiman's planned March 31 departure, there seems to be a vacuum in the Kosovo court with no successor ready to take over.
In an official statement, however, Schwendiman expressed confidence that the mission will continue efficiently, and he cast no blame on the Trump administration for the reasons he is leaving.
"I have just been informed by the U.S. Department of State that my three-year term as Senior Foreign Service officer will end on 31 March, 2018," his statement said. "As a result, my [position] as the specialist prosecutor cannot be extended. This must happen because the U.S. administration is unable to overlook my status as a retiree called back into service - something the law won't let me change regardless how much I might want to stay."
He praised the European Union for the speed in which it has begun its search for a new prosecutor and said the strong staff is prepared to carry on under an interim chief until that appointment is made.
"I am not resigning," he said. "In truth, I would be delighted if U.S. law permitted me to stay. But it won't and I must, as a consequence, and very reluctantly, leave a position that I am both proud and honored to hold."
So the University of Utah graduate now has had to oblige decisions affecting his career on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - neither having anything to do with his qualifications or his performance.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/03/09/rolly-elite-utah-prosecutor-once-again-loses-out-on-a-prestigious-post-through-no-fault-of-his-own/
https://faculty.utah.edu/u0032484-David_J_Schwendiman/hm/index.hml
https://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0032484
#6389411 at 2019-05-02 03:58:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8170: Act I Is Over Edition
David J. Schwendiman
David Schwendiman, Prosecuting Atrocity Crimes in National Courts: Looking Back on 2009 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8 Nw. U. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 269, 291-92 (2010).
http://law.emory.edu/eilr/content/volume-27/issue-1/comments/ensuring-effective-prosecution-sexually-violent-war-crimes.html
https://barenakedislam.com/2015/07/10/the-disaster-that-bill-clinton-created-in-bosnia-by-backing-muslims-against-the-serbs-has-now-become-next-front-for-the-islamic-state-isis-caliphate/
https://timeline.com/bosnia-genocide-clinton-intervention-eff0412b3b5b