pos. Yossi Cohen, head of Mossad, the intelligence agency, extremely close to Netanyahu, for 10 years leading this campaign to stop the ICC from bringing charges, can you talk about the significance of this and how it affected what Fatou Bensouda did, the previous ICC chief, and then Karim Khan?
KENNETH ROTH: Well, first, this is a crime. Karim Khan made that clear. I mean, when he issued that notice that any effort to intimidate or retaliate against prosecutorial staff will be an obstruction of justice, in essence, I thought he was referring to Republican senators who had threatened severe
operation against her husband. And she didnt have to after that point, because the court authorized the investigation to go forward in February 2021, near the end of Bensoudas term in June 2021. So, she could have just sat on it and let Karim Khan, her successor, take over. She didnt. She actual
think back last week, Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, his main argument against Karim Khan charging Netanyahu and Gallant is whats known as the principle of complementarity. Thats a rule under the court statute that the court should defer to genuine, good-faith national prosecutions. And
purely reactive investigations. They were not good-faith investigations. And I think that this whole hacking and surveillance and threatening incident gives the lie to Blinkens argument that Karim Khan should defer to Israeli justice efforts. These are not good-faith justice efforts. These are cov
at crime. So, you know, Israel has been vulnerable to this charge. It still is vulnerable to this charge. I would like to see Karim Khan bring that charge at some stage, because its a straightforward case. You know, theres no complicated facts behind it. Its just happening out in the open. So, tha