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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Human rights chief expresses fear over possible UN 'collapse'

The outgoing United Nations human rights chief has warned the world body's five permanent Security Council member states wield too much power and it could lead to its "collapse".

China, France, the UK, Russia and the United States are "running too much of the business" because they are able to veto resolutions put forward by other UN members, High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told reporters on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so

Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019.

The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.