Posted on 12/19/2009 6:44:35 PM PST by Cindy
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Home Briefing Room Presidential Actions Executive Orders
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release December 17, 2009 Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425
EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE, December 16, 2009.
You could be right...
Or they've got something on SOMEBODY Obama wants to protect. Immunity from search and exemption for employees from US taxes is a big deal. Why was it given to INTERPOL, and why now?
???WTF, over???
Another Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment. Looks like the KGB never really got disbanded. It just moved it’s HQ to the WH.
I think you nailed it, PapaBear.
The pig Clinton signed a similar EO to protect UN NGOs. (Non-Governmental Organizations)
True story. I bought several lots of blue helmet seeking bullets; I guess I need to get a few lots of Interpol seeking bullets? Just in case you know.
you’re not the only one
If I ever see an obama sticker I think idiot. cultist, brainless and yes some of them traitors ,
Them the media and those in power right now , ,,well I’ll stay silent on this
MAYBE INTERPOL has something on Barry that current investigations into his background (which should have been done years ago) are about to reveal.
BTTT - This needs to be this week’s top item!
Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.
Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable. (Emphasis added.)
Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens’ Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery (”unless such immunity be expressly waived.”)
Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever they may be in the United States. This could conceivably include human assets - Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.
Context: International Criminal Court
The importance of this last crucial point cannot be understated, because this immunity and protection - and elevation above the US Constitution - afforded INTERPOL is likely a precursor to the White House subjecting the United States under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). INTERPOL provides a significant enforcement function for the ICC, just as our FBI provides a significant function for our Department of Justice.
RowdyFCC posted on 12/20 that it could have something to do with information Iterpol has on Obama. This could very well be true and to answer the question as to ‘why now’? It seems that the law suit the ‘birther movement’ started questioning BHO’s eligibility to be POTUS has been allowed to proceed and the court date has been set for Jan. 26. BHO’s lawyers motion to dismiss was denied. The court date will have the judge reviewing ‘requests for discovery’. Pretty interesting stuff.
Even if that is not a consideration, it should bother everyone that this can put us directly under the ICC.
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