[CodeToad]

Our police participate as INTERPOL, does that mean as members of INTERPOL do our federal, State and local police have diplomatic immunity as well?

[behzinlea]

That's exactly what it means. The ordinary FBI agent is subject to strict constitutional limitations in how he carries out an investigation in the United States. Citizens are empowered under the Constitution and the laws of the US to seek redress if he violates these limitations.

Once on loan to Interpol, that same FBI agent--working physically out of the same US office--has absolute immunity to investigate and collect evidence in whatever manner he chooses and the targeted citizens have NO recourse in US courts to challenge those methods or to know what information has been collected or how it was collected.

Defenders of this monstrous executive order try to minimize the threat by pointing out that Interpol would have a hard time prosecuting a suspect in the US courts if the evidence was collected in violation of the fourth amendment. Even if that is true, it highly unlikely that Interpol would seek to assist a prosecution in the US courts. This is where the International Criminal Court comes in. That court is not bound by the US Constitution. Interpol simply turns over the evidence to the ICC prosecutors. The suspect is arrested while outside the US and convicted on the basis of evidence collected within the US in violation of the fourth amendment.