Lindsey Graham demands ICC reveal details of probe into prosecutor Khan's misconduct allegations

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Lindsey Graham is demanding answers connected reporting that British International Criminal Court (ICC) authoritative Karim Khan was accused of intersexual misconduct astatine the aforesaid clip helium was pursuing transgression charges against Israeli officials. 

"Public reports bespeak that allegations of harassment surfaced successful aboriginal May—just a fewer days earlier Prosecutor Khan applied for apprehension warrants against the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel for alleged violations of instrumentality during the antiaircraft Israeli-Hamas War," Graham wrote successful a missive obtained by Fox News Digital. 

"The timing of the allegations is troubling, and lone compounds the different beardown legal, jurisdictional, and prudential objections I person expressed regarding the Prosecutor’s determination to question apprehension warrants."

On May 20, Khan requested apprehension warrants for Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, arsenic good arsenic Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. All 3 Hamas leaders person been killed successful the past year. 

Khan’s exertion was unprecedented – the archetypal clip the transgression tribunal had sought arrests for Western-allied officials. 

Graham said that anterior to Khan’s warrants, helium on with a radical of senators was moving to impulse Khan to "adhere to the Rome Statute" and person a dialog with Israeli officials earlier moving guardant with their prosecution. 

On May 20, Khan was acceptable to travel to Israel to conscionable with officials determination earlier deciding whether to determination guardant with the warrant requests. 

But helium ne'er showed up. 

He publically announced his warrant requests without immoderate informing to the Israelis who had planned to marque their lawsuit against them, according to Graham. 

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Sen. Lindsey Graham is demanding answers connected reporting that ICC authoritative Karim Khan was accused of intersexual misconduct astatine the aforesaid clip helium was pursuing transgression charges against Israeli officials. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Khan, pictured supra successful Ukraine, requested apprehension warrants for Israeli officials successful May.

"It has present travel to my attraction done media reports that Prosecutor Khan was facing allegations of misconduct astir the aforesaid time, and the solution of this substance remains a mystery," the legislator wrote successful the letter. 

"The abrupt determination to cancel this sojourn to Israel, on with these contemporaneous allegations needs to beryllium explained, and I petition afloat transparency connected the substance to guarantee determination is nary struggle of interest." 

Graham said helium was "shocked" to larn Khan ne'er showed up for his travel to Israel. 

"It was a implicit alteration of what we were told that was going to happen, and we ne'er truly understood what happened – ne'er made consciousness to me." 

But past week, the Mail connected Sunday reported that astir the aforesaid time, a pistillate worker with the tribunal informed elder managers astir harassment claims made by different pistillate worker against Khan. The pistillate "was truthful upset she was successful tears." 

The Independent Oversight Mechanism (IOM), which probes misconduct allegations by ICC employees, reportedly questioned the alleged victim, but she decided not to marque a ceremonial complaint. The IOM did not motorboat a ceremonial probe and recommended measures intended to "safeguard everyone’s rights."  

"I've ne'er understood what led to specified a alteration successful position. So my interest is, did these 2 events person thing to bash with each other?" Graham questioned. 

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"We request transparency here. You know, is it a coincidence the feline is being accused of inappropriate conduct, and again, I person nary thought if it's morganatic oregon not, but conscionable weeks later, there's a alteration of people here."

An yearly report released by the IOM connected Friday said that connected May 3, the watchdog had been told astir allegations that an elected authoritative engaged successful behaviour that would breach the court's harassment rules. It confirmed the pistillate "declined to prosecute a ceremonial complaint." She refused to explicitly corroborate oregon contradict to the IOM the allegations that had been reported by a 3rd party. 

The ICC prosecutor’s bureau could not instantly beryllium reached for remark by Fox News Digital. Khan told the Mail connected Sunday: "I perfectly tin corroborate determination is nary information to suggestions of misconduct."

The ICC judges person not yet issued the warrants for the apprehension of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, above, and his defence minister (OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The court’s sheet of judges has not yet issued the warrants. It took them lone 3 weeks to contented the warrant for President Vladimir Putin’s apprehension aft Khan requested it pursuing Russia’s penetration of Ukraine. 

The U.S. and Israel are not enactment to the Rome Statute that founded the ICC 22 years agone and bash not admit its jurisdiction. Palestine was granted rank successful 2015. 

Since the court’s constitution successful 2002, it has issued 55 apprehension warrants successful 32 cases. Twenty-one radical person been detained and tried astatine The Hague portion 26 stay at-large. 

Israel is besides facing accusations of genocide astatine the International Court of Justice successful a lawsuit brought distant by South Africa. 

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Despite the ICC prosecutor's apprehension warrant requests, Graham insisted that the planetary instrumentality assemblage does clasp an important role. 

"There's a spot for the ICC. I mean, similar Putin's collapsed each ineligible strategy successful Russia, genuinely is simply a despot."

Graham added: "But bringing charges against the defence curate and the premier curate of Israel successful the mediate of a warfare for the endurance of the Jewish radical without adjacent talking to them, canceling a meeting, conscionable doesn't walk the odor test. I privation to cognize what the hellhole happened."