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We would like to restate for the record the fact that the Office of the Prosecutor has not sought advice, communicated or collaborated with the former Prosecutor.<\/p>
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Fatou Bensouda<\/em>((As quoted in Sven Becker and Dietmar Pieper, The Ocampo Affair: Current ICC Chief Prosecutor Weighed Down by Predecessor, Der Spiegel<\/a>, 17 October 2017.<\/em>))<\/p><\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, has some explaining to do.<\/p>\n

In my last post<\/a>, I mused whether she would take the necessary action to get to the bottom of what is now being referred to as Ocampogate<\/a> \u2013 <\/em>Luis Moreno Ocampo\u2019s potential illicit activities in his offshore companies and large transfer of funds through and to tax havens while acting as the first ICC Prosecutor, and the unusually lucrative consulting deal he struck with Libyan oil billionaire (and past Muammar Gaddafi<\/a> associate) Hassan Tatanaki<\/a> \u2013 for whom Moreno Ocampo condescended himself by inappropriately soliciting assistance and inside confidential information<\/a> from ICC staff.<\/p>\n

Madame Bensouda was quick to distance herself from her former boss, issuing a statement<\/a> that\u00a0she had no contact with him since he left the ICC. In doing so, she obviously wanted to shield herself from any Ocampogate<\/a><\/em> blowback.<\/p>\n

Throw a couple of underlings under the bus, stiff upper lip, deny, deny, deny, and weather the storm. Not an unsound strategy for a seasoned prosecutor with shrewd political instincts, having cut her teeth as Chief Legal Adviser and Minister of Justice of Gambia\u2019s former President, Yahya Jammeh<\/a>. Except, in this case, there are documents that contradict Madame Bensouda\u2019s self-righteous indignation at insinuations that she may have been privately consulting with Moreno Ocampo. As Der Spiegel<\/a> bluntly puts it: \u201cA comparison of Bensouda\u2019s official statements and her email exchanges with Ocampo lead to the inevitable conclusion that the ICC\u2019s chief prosecutor has repeatedly not told the truth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton adopted a similar strategy. Looking into the TV cameras, biting his lower lip for an affectation of hurt mixed with resolve, wagging his finger with the supreme confidence of an innocent victim of false accusations, he resolutely announced \u201cI did not have sexual relations with that woman<\/a>.\u201d If he only knew at the time that that woman<\/em>, Monica Lewinsky, cunningly preserved the DNA evidence on her dress which showed otherwise. But, being the clever lawyer that he is, when confronted with the evidence and his past denials about \u201csexual relations,\u201d President Clinton turned to semantics, retorting: \u201cIt depends<\/em>\u00a0upon<\/em> what the meaning of the word<\/em> \u2018is\u2019 is.<\/em>\u201d Clever, memorable, coinable, though not an answer or explanation that passes the laugh test.<\/p>\n

At least Madame Bensouda seems to tacitly acknowledge that there were contacts with \u201cLuis,\u201d as she refers to him. The problem however is that what little she is now willing to admit does not square with the content of the emails being reported.\u00a0\u201cO, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!<\/em>\u201d((Walter Scott, Marmion (poem), 1808.))<\/p>\n

According to Der Spiegel<\/a>, there are \u201cdozens of emails\u201d that Madame Bensouda wrote to Moreno Ocampo \u2013 and they do not appear to be season\u2019s greetings or birthday wishes. In fact, if what is reported is correct, it seems that Madame Bensouda was seeking advice from Moreno Ocampo, using him for back-channeling, confiding in him, passing on confidential information, and, effectively, creating an atmosphere that fed into Moreno Ocampo\u2019s misguided and unethical conviction that he could tap into his former ICC subordinates and associates to gain access to information and influence conditions to the benefit of his clients.<\/p>\n

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A \u201cpetard\u201d was a bomb used to blow open a gate to a city. To be hoist by one\u2019s own petard was to have your bomb blow up in your face, literally lifting you off the ground (and killing you)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Madame Bensouda\u2019s less-than-candid remarks made to extricate herself from Ocampogate<\/a><\/em> are unlikely to be viewed as mere slips of the tongue. The statement she put out was not off-the-cuff. It may have been made in haste (unwise to make declarative statements before knowing all the facts), but it was not without deliberation \u2013 carefully crafted and wordsmithed to put the matter to rest \u2013 at least as to Madame Bensouda. The fact that she was unaware of just what had been obtained by the press (much like President Clinton was unaware of the dress with the incriminating\u00a0stain) when she made the remarks, will all the more feed into the media frenzy that is out to uncover the truth. Der Spiegel<\/a> is proving to be relentless.\u00a0 And the risk of being hoist by her own petard may be increasing.<\/p>\n

If the emails are as reported by <\/span>Der Spiegel<\/a>, the Independent Oversight Mechanism (IOM) \u2013 <\/span>currently looking into the conduct of at least two ICC employees<\/a> who collaborated with Moreno Ocampo on the Tatanaki matter \u2013 may rapidly conclude (if it hasn’t already) that it needs to collect all private communications between Madame Bensouda and Moreno Ocampo. And since there may even be more compromising information on their respective servers that was not leaked to or obtained by the French investigative website <\/span>Mediapart<\/a><\/u> and the <\/span>European Investigative Collaborations<\/a><\/u>, the IOM may need to search for and preserve any data of this kind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expect Moreno Ocampo to resist any investigative requests requiring him to turn over his emails and other potentially useful information. Who knows what prying eyes may uncover?<\/p>\n

Madame Bensouda may not have the luxury to resist, evade, or stall. In the past, computers used by Defence Counsel at the ICC have been seized and searched, so this is not some fanciful possibility. Though such sauce for the goose ought be sauce for the gander, invading the privacy of the <\/em>ICC Prosecutor may be too inelegant \u2013 especially when the very integrity of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor, as well as the ICC is at risk. And when, depending on what eventually emerges, a special prosecutor may need to be appointed.<\/p>\n

It may not be too soon for Madame Bensouda to also lawyer-up.<\/p>\n

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