On Monday, Americans found another reason to mistrust supernational institutions, when the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor requested permission to investigate U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

In Fatou Bensouda’s submission to ICC judges, she claimed there is reasonable suspicion of “War crimes by members of the United States (‘US’) armed forces on the territory of Afghanistan, and by members of the US Central Intelligence Agency (‘CIA’) in secret detention facilities in Afghanistan and on the territory of other States Parties to the Rome Statute, principally in the period of 2003-2004.”