In November 2018, I had the pleasure of attending a speech given by [Smith-indicted Kosovo President] Thaci to US governmental officials, foreign ambassadors, policy analysts, dignitaries, members of the public and media outlets at the Atlantic Council, a well-reputed Washington think-tank.
“His key point, which he delivered emphatically, was that despite the horrors of the war with Serbia, which Kosovo will never forget, Kosovo was prepared to negotiate a final and permanent settlement agreement with Serbia, and that the time to do so is now. He was roundly applauded,” I wrote at the time.
Two weeks later, President Trump took an unusually proactive position by writing directly to Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, imploring them to sign an agreement and suggesting that they would be invited to the White House to commemorate it.
However, at the same time, Thaci was dogged by allegations that he had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity as initially claimed by Council of Europe human rights rapporteur Dick Marty in his infamous report of 2010 titled ‘Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs’.Marty’s report, which was adopted by the Council of Europe in January 2011, and a subsequent investigation ultimately led to the creation of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which opened for business in 2017. The court is designed specifically to prosecute former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, while having no jurisdiction over Serbian war criminals, and is generally loathed in Kosovo.
One of the key reasons for creating the court in a far-away location was the fear of witness intimidation if any of the high-level cases, like Thaci’s, were prosecuted in Kosovo.
American prosecutor Jack Smith, who had been a top-tier prosecutor at the US Justice Department, took office as the chief prosecutor at the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague in September 2018, and spent the next two years continuing the investigation of Thaci and others.
On June 24, 2020, while the investigation was still underway, Thaci was in route to Washington at the invitation of President Trump to meet with him and Serbian President Vucic at the White House on June 27 in an effort to bring the two sides closer together, a historic opportunity.
However, at the very same time, Smith’s office issued a press release stating that an indictment had been filed against Thaci (and three other KLA veterans), causing Thaci to return home immediately, and the White House meeting to be cancelled, surely a lost opportunity for normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Michael Cohen looks like a choir boy compared to Jack Smith.
If only the Repukes controlled the budget.
Jack Smith is a deep-state special ops agent
He wasn’t even properly appointed, and approved by the Senate, and his entire prosecution is a fraud. America will eventually come to realize and accept this.
Garland knows it too, nonetheless Smith’s “suicide mission” is proving useful
Honestly folks people don’t care anymore…the mediapukes have milked this cow dry! People are tuning out..can you say OVER BURN! EVERYONE KNOWS ITS A SHAM FAUX TRIAL!!! That’s why the cornered rats are becoming vicious and repulsive! Nobody gives a damn anymore. We’re more worried about paying $4 bucks for eggs and one weeks worth of work money for a piece of steak etc…and we ain’t talking about the gas ⛽️ prices yet. Summer is going to be a punch in the stomach for many parents when kids are out of school! and we’re not even talking about the illegals who are taking jobs, food or medical care from Americans and making it worse for us. Summer is going to be the summer of Hamas …hold onto your bootstraps because there’s gonna be a lot of evil roaming the streets compliments of FJB replacement agenda!
Sleeze is exactly what the Biden administration is looking for in a prosecutor.
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