International police force above American law? Why?
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Obama gives Interpol free hand in U.S.
Examiner Editorial
December 30, 2009
International police force above American law? Why?
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No presidential statement or White House press briefing was held
on it. In fact, all that can be found about it on the official White
House Web site is the Dec. 17 announcement and one-paragraph text of
President Obama's Executive Order 12425, with this innocuous headline:
"Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a public
international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges,
exemptions, and immunities."In fact, this new directive from Obama may
be the most destructive blow ever struck against American
constitutional civil liberties. No wonder the White House said as
little as possible about it.
There are multiple reasons why this Obama decision is so deeply
disturbing. First, the Obama order reverses a 1983 Reagan
administration decision in order to grant Interpol, the International
Criminal Police Organization, two key privileges. First, Obama has
granted Interpol the ability to operate within the territorial limits
of the United States without being subject to the same constitutional
restraints that apply to all domestic law enforcement agencies such as
the FBI. Second, Obama has exempted Interpol's domestic facilities --
including its office within the U.S. Department of Justice -- from
search and seizure by U.S. authorities and from disclosure of archived
documents in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by
U.S. citizens. Think very carefully about what you just read: Obama has
given an international law enforcement organization that is accountable
to no other national authority the ability to operate as it pleases
within our own borders, and he has freed it from the most basic measure
of official transparency and accountability, the FOIA.
The Examiner has asked for but not yet received from the White
House press office an explanation of why the president signed this
executive order and who among his advisers was involved in the process
leading to his doing so. Unless the White House can provide credible
reasons to think otherwise, it seems clear that Executive Order 12425's
consequences could be far-reaching and disastrous. To cite only the
most obvious example, giving Interpol free rein to act within this
country could subject U.S. military, diplomatic, and intelligence
personnel to the prospect of being taken into custody and hauled before
the International Criminal Court as "war criminals."
As National Review Online's Andy McCarthy put it, the White House
must answer these questions: Why should 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 that will be beyond the scrutiny of Congress, American
law enforcement, the media, and the American people?
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