Been posted before but a good reminder. Does he have the power to do this?
It’d be easier to tally the things he’s done that he DOES actually have the power to do.
Did we ever get an explanation by anyone in the Administration as to why this was so freaking important?
Yes. He's overruling a previous President's Executive Order and extending to INTERPOL privileges that are allowable under a law from the late 1940's. Of course, that law was passed prior to the advent of the Freedom of Information Act. I don't think this move violates the letter of the law, I do think it violates the spirit of the law - at least the spirit of FOIA.
Interpol just swore in Acorn International as their US agents.
If no one challenges him he does!