Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law? [Andy McCarthy]

National Review ^ | December 23, 2009 | Andy McCarthy

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?   [Andy McCarthy]

You just can't make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

Interpol is the shorthand for the International Criminal Police Organization. It was established in 1923 and operates in about 188 countries. By executive order 12425, issued in 1983, President Reagan recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it some of the privileges and immunities customarily extended to foreign diplomats. Interpol, however, is also an active law-enforcement agency, so critical privileges and immunities (set forth in Section 2(c) of the International Organizations Immunities Act) were withheld. Specifically, Interpol's property and assets remained subject to search and seizure, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions like the Freedom of Information Act. Being constrained by the Fourth Amendment, FOIA, and other limitations of the Constitution and federal law that protect the liberty and privacy of Americans is what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.

On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol's property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

Interpol works closely with international tribunals (such as the International Criminal Court — which the United States has refused to join because of its sovereignty surrendering provisions, though top Obama officials want us in it). It also works closely with foreign courts and law-enforcement authorities (such as those in Europe that are investigating former Bush administration officials for purported war crimes — i.e., for actions taken in America's defense).

Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?

Steve Schippert has more at ThreatsWatch, here.

12/23 07:59 AMShare

[An Old Man]

Darn, it must be my old copy of the Constitution! I did a word by word search of the entire document for "diplomatic immunity", and could not find that term anywhere.

I suppose I will have to get an updated version. Where did you get yours? :<(

[stevie_d_64]

Sure he does...He would like us to lose our cool first...

So, what does that leave us to do???

[editor-surveyor]

"He would like us to lose our cool first"

It'll be one of his dupes that loses his cool! - With all the means of communication at our disposal, everything that happens travels around the world in minutes. Twelve years of watching news pop up here on FR long before it hits even AM radio has convinced me that it would be just plain impossible to have any level of surprise at all, no matter what he might want to try. Cell phones, VHF, CB, Ham radio, and email chains are all quite amazing.

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[bitt]

oops, forget it, the above didn’t load the html instructions. go to the FR sandbox, it’s easy to understand

[Earthdweller]

Bookmark this..the republicans won’t repeal it...they don’t reverse anything.

[huldah1776]

Thank you. Two surviving vet brothers will also get to read this. They don’t hunt, yet. :)

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[stevie_d_64]

Let’s hope it goes like that...

That puts us in the reactionary mode, but I feel in a situation like that it is best to appear to be at a disadvantage before we react...

[CodeToad]

“Where did you get yours?”

Are you really that ignorant of diplomatic relations, treaties, etc.?

[An Old Man]

son, you are grasping at straws. Show me where he is authorized under the constitution to do this or shut up.

[CodeToad]

“Show me where he is authorized under the constitution to do this or shut up.”

I’ll shut up when you do. Get an education you idiot.

[An Old Man]

You’re wound awful tight today. Maybe you should give it a rest.

[PIF]

FARS,

Hussein’s EO say Interpol files are “inviolate” = no one, one one can have access - that means you, me, and the States.

And on a different topic:
http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?p=2675

[sheik yerbouty]

This is a prelude to an army of blue hemets, hell bent on occupying us!

[GVnana]

I checked the White House website last night for this executive order. It's been pulled from the website, but you can still find it online.

Nothing good can come from this. Interpol's roots are in Nazi Germany.

[Hildy]

Why aren’t they forced to answer WHY they felt this was an important thing to do? Aren’t we owed anything anymore? Did anyone hear what Rush had to say about it?

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