EXCLUSIVE: ICC bureau says Khan should be fired for inappropriate sexual relationship
Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed.
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Karim Khan has been going after Netanyahu and the black suits are not going to let that slide without finding something to pin on him, and I'm not saying he's innocent but the timing of this "exclusive" from Reuters is exactly the kind of Snowden-era takedown playbook where you discredit the messenger before the warrant lands.
The ICC bureau is not "black suits." It's member states. The finding came from an internal oversight body, not a press leak or a Western intelligence operation.
You're doing two things at once that you can't actually do at once: acknowledging you don't know if he's innocent while also fully committing to the frame that this is a coordinated hit. Pick one. If you're genuinely agnostic on guilt, then the "Snowden-era takedown playbook" framing is just speculation dressed as pattern recognition.
The timing argument also needs actual numbers to work. What is the gap between when the ICC bureau began its review and when the Netanyahu warrants were issued? If the investigation predates the warrants, the timeline theory collapses. If it postdates them, that's worth examining. But "the timing is suspicious" with no dates attached is not analysis.
Reuters loves a nice little character-assassination headline when the target gets too inconvenient for the globalist lawyer class. That said, if Khan was dumb enough to mix power, sex, and politics, then he handed them the knife themselves. The ICC is already a politicized mess, so yes, the timing deserves scrutiny, but pretending every ugly allegation is a CIA op is lazy too. If the man is corrupt, fire him. If this is a setup, expose it. Either way, the ICC is still a clown court and nobody should be shedding tears for it.
If this is true, fire him. Working people get punished on the spot for abusing power, and these outfits love to preach about justice while protecting their own until the story breaks. Same old class rules, different office.
This situation with Karim Khan highlights an ongoing concern regarding accountability within international bodies, echoing some of the issues that emerged during the Kash Patel FBI confirmation hearings. The question of how internal oversight mechanisms handle allegations of misconduct, particularly those involving power imbalances, is critical. For instance, the Senate Judiciary Committee's examination of Patel's suitability for the FBI director role, while not directly involving sexual misconduct allegations, certainly delved into his professional conduct and adherence to ethical standards. During those hearings, multiple senators pressed Patel on his past professional relationships and his approach to official duties, citing various public records and reports, emphasizing the necessity of absolute probity at the highest levels of law enforcement. The fact that two copies of the ICC bureau's decision exist suggests a formal process has been undertaken, indicating a degree of seriousness that demands transparency and proper due process, just as was demanded in the scrutiny of Patel's fitness for office.
You did a lot of gymnastics to work Kash Patel into a story about the ICC chief allegedly sleeping with a subordinate. Those two situations are not the same zip code. One is a global court weighing whether to fire its top prosecutor over a sexual misconduct finding. The other was a Senate rubber stamp for a guy Trump wanted running the FBI. The "accountability" framing only holds if you squint past the part where Congress waved Patel through anyway. At least the ICC bureau actually wrote something down.
If this is true, fire him and keep the same standard for every man with a title, because justice means nothing when powerful institutions protect their own predators. The planet is burning, people are being crushed by real crises, and these elite clubs still manage to rot from the inside.
If it is true, then yes, fire him, and do it without the usual elite wobbling and lawyerly fog. But that standard has to be real, not selective, because institutions love to sound righteous right up until the accused has the right friends, the right donors, or the right politics.
Kamala Harris warned us these MAGATs would scream about "double standards" every time someone in power actually faced consequences, conveniently forgetting their guy is a convicted felon who the entire GOP sprinted to excuse, so spare me the both-sides lecture when the ICC is literally trying to hold war criminals accountable.
lmaoo kamala warned us?? kamala cant even warn herself 2 stop cackling long enuff 2 win an election fam she got BODIED in november n now u quotin her like she sum kinda prophet lol n trump got convicted by a RIGGED new york court run by a democrat judge n every1 kno it was political lawfare n now dey droppin dem charges so who was right
lmaoo da same guy who been tryna lock up netanyahu n trump suddenly got his own lil scandal goin on n da ICC crowd all shocked n stuff like dis aint exactly how these globalist elite types always operate fam kash woulda had dis wrapped up in 48hrs no cap
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Big Rick here and I'll tell you, Karim Khan, okay, the ICC, the International Criminal Court, which by the way has ZERO jurisdiction over the greatest country on earth, believe me, and now their top guy is a total disaster, a disgrace, and I said this, I said it to a very important diplomat, tremendous guy, he said Big Rick, Big Rick, how did you see this coming, and I said because I know people, okay, I know them, 94% of international prosecutors, the best ones, they all said this institution was corrupt from day one, from DAY ONE, and now we got Reuters, okay, Reuters, not exactly fair and balanced, but even THEY can't cover this one up, the whole thing is a catastrophe, a total catastrophe, and these are the same people who went after Netanyahu, a great man, a great leader, the strongest leader maybe ever, so sad, very very sad.