US Threatens ICC Staff Families With Consequences in response to war crime probe

|"It has recently come to my attention that the chef de cabinet to the prosecutor, Sam Shoamanesh, and the head of jurisdiction, complementarity, and cooperation division, Phakiso Mochochoko, are helping drive ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's effort to use this court to investigate Americans," the secretary of state said. "I'm examining this information now and considering what the United States' next steps ought to be with respect to these individuals and all those who are putting Americans at risk."

|"We want to identify those responsible for this partisan investigation and their family members who may want to travel to the United States or engage in activity that's inconsistent with making sure we protect Americans," he continued.

That whole administration is being run like it binged watch a bunch of Mafia themed movies and decided it was a good way to run a country...

Leave families out of it, period.

You don't target people's children out of spite, it's unethical and frankly, wrong. Why should family members of the ICC be held at the airport to be interrogated like suspected criminals? What possible explanation is there?

How is this a partisan investigation?

This is outrages

hot take: If the ICC doesn't have jurisdiction in the US, and the ICC is basically a foreign entity, why shouldn't they be treated the same as if the MPS[1] was "investigating" DoD officials? Should they get a free pass because most of the other western countries are part of it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_of...