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In July 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Stephen Rapp, a former United States Attorney and prosecutor for the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone, to succeed John Clint Williamson as Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. The Senate confirmed him on September 8, 2009, making Rapp the fourth person to hold the title.
Nader branded Obama as "war criminal" [20] and called for his impeachment. [21] Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich suggested that Barack Obama could be impeached. [20] Kucinich said Obama's action in Libya was "a grave decision that cannot be made by the president alone".
Rapp was appointed ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues by President Barack Obama, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 8, 2009. Rapp led the State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice. In that position, he advised the secretary of state and the under secretary for civilian security, democracy, and human rights and ...
Andrew J. May (D-KY) convicted of accepting bribes from a war munitions manufacturer. Was sentenced to 9 months in prison, after which he was pardoned by Truman (1947). [27] J. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ) was convicted of salary fraud and given an 18-month sentence and a fine. He was imprisoned in Danbury Prison.
[112] [113] Of the 26 U.S. soldiers initially charged with criminal offenses or war crimes for actions at My Lai, only William Calley was convicted. Initially sentenced to life in prison, Calley had his sentence reduced to ten years, then was released after only three and a half years under house arrest. The incident prompted widespread outrage ...
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States President Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve" [1] —to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes.
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Hedges v. Obama [note 1] [3] [4] was a lawsuit filed in January 2012 against the Obama administration and members of the U.S. Congress [5] by a group including former New York Times reporter Christopher Hedges, challenging the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA). [6]