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INTERPOL Now Has Full Law-Enforcement Authority in the U.S. Without Accountability

Thanks to Barrack Hussein Obama, the United States now has an international police force working with full immunity and without regard to the Freedom of Information requests as stated by our laws. Threatwatch reports:

Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order “Amending Executive Order 12425.” It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other “International Organizations” as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.

By removing language from President Reagan’s 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates – now operates – on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

More from Threatwatch if the above does not make your skin crawl:

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.

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.

HotAir explains:

During his presidency, Ronald Reagan granted the global police agency Interpol the status of diplomatic personnel in order to engage more constructively on international law enforcement. In Executive Order 12425, Reagan made two exceptions to that status. The first had to do with taxation, but the second was to make sure that Interpol had the same accountability for its actions as American law enforcement — namely, they had to produce records when demanded by courts and could not have immunity for their actions.

Barack Obama unexpectedly revoked those exceptions in a change to EO 12425 last (week)…

Your President is dismantling this country and basically merging it with the Socialist Europeans. Nice work folks.

2 Comments

PAK  on January 3rd, 2010

So help me God, but did Barack Hussein Obama just break his 01-20-09 inaugural oath to…”faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States and…preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” by signing Executive Order 12425 without consulting Congressional lawmakers?

chris  on January 3rd, 2010

It appears he and the Democrats as well as many, if not most, of the GOP have decided for the last 50-100 years to basically ignore the Constitution. This will be the year that Americans will most likely demand that it be adhered to. That is my hope for 2010.

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