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Introductory Note To The Department Of State Rewards Program Update And Technical Corrections Act Of 2012, Michael A. Newton

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

For nearly three decades, the United States has offered monetary rewards designed to facilitate the apprehension and transfer for trial of suspects when their trial would directly advance American national interests. In the 1990s, for example, posters and matchbooks appeared across the Balkans with contact information available to anyone who might be willing to assist in the transfer of Slobodan Miloševic´ or Radovan Karadžic´ to face charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugloslavia. In Congress’s view, this rewards program has helped to generate actionable intelligence that has prevented terrorist attacks, aided convictions of key suspects charged with …