Saw this on O'Reilly last night.

[Skulnik]

Newt Gingrich brought it up, hope O'reilly plays this story up, Obama is wiping his ass with our constitution.

JMHO.


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[Print] Obama gives Interpol free hand in U.S.
Examiner Editorial
December 30, 2009
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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?

:mj1:

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

[SIZE=+2]U.S. Reaches Out on Crime[/SIZE]
Interpol Countries Huddle on Fighting Far-Reaching Outfits
[SIZE=-1] By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 12, 2009
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The Obama administration, intensifying its efforts to defuse an explosion of international organized crime, has dispatched a senior Justice Department official to the Far East this week for meetings with foreign counterparts on the issue.
Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden will meet Monday with justice ministers from dozens of countries at the Interpol General Assembly in Singapore, where they will discuss ways to neutralize criminal enterprises that target cyberspace, financial institutions and energy markets.
Ogden will continue on to Thailand and meet with authorities there to discuss the importance of the extradition of arms merchant Viktor Bout, dubbed by analysts as the "merchant of death." Federal prosecutors in New York secured an indictment of Bout last year on charges that he attempted to sell weapons to a Colombian organization deemed a terrorist group by U.S. authorities. Bout denies the allegations and his legal status has become, behind the scenes, a fierce tug of war between the United States and Russia.
The Bout case is among the highest-profile symbols of an alleged crime threat flourishing on multiple fronts across the globe. Last week, federal prosecutors and the FBI announced charges in a "phishing" Internet scam out of Egypt that preys on Americans. Other U.S. law enforcement efforts this year have focused on human smuggling involving Uzbekistan nationals in Kansas and Missouri, Balkan drug rings operating in New Jersey and New York, and cigarette smuggling out of Miami's ports to Europe.
"We face enormously powerful, well-resourced criminal organizations that are not entirely located or even principally located in the United States, that are able to take advantage of weaker government structures than our own . . . but the harm is felt here," Ogden said in an interview, emphasizing the importance of tight partnerships with foreign counterparts.
In September, the Justice Department inspector general issued a report urging U.S. officials to reinvigorate their affiliation with Interpol, which distributes bulletins requesting that law enforcement agencies all over the world be on the lookout for fugitives and lawbreakers. The inspector general criticized the Justice Department's data-gathering practices and concluded that information sharing even among U.S. agencies can be far from adequate. An executive committee intended to advise the American offshoot of Interpol, composed of Justice Department and Homeland Security leaders, had not met for more than five years, the report said.
Justice Department officials recently named Timothy A. Williams, a longtime U.S. Marshals Service employee, as director of the U.S. National Central Bureau, the American offshoot of Interpol.
Ogden's international trip follows an announcement in May by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on the creation of the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center, tasked with evaluating international crime threats and coordinating investigations. That group of nine law-enforcement agencies includes the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the departments of Labor and State.
Proponents of the approach say that international cooperation, including the Interpol "red-alert system," can pay dividends and save lives. Two weeks ago, police in Phoenix, working with the FBI and authorities in Norway and Spain, successfully located and arrested a fugitive at the airport in the Spanish city of Malaga. The subject is wanted in Arizona on charges of child molestation and possession of child pornography.
In June, after an urgent request from Interpol in Helsinki about a Finnish kidnapping victim, American authorities were able to trace the kidnapper's electronic communications through Internet service providers in the United States. The victim was located and safely returned to her family.
The strategy is far from the old-school view of organized crime, which targeted the Mafia. It continues efforts by officials in the criminal division of the Bush Justice Department, who made international criminal rackets a priority last year and who stressed the importance of the issue in meetings with the Obama transition team.



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Wow, what a shitty idea.

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

The original article sounds even more ridiculous when you look at the government website: http://www.justice.gov/usncb/

 

[THE KOD]

there has to be a reason he did this that you are missing.

you guys think all these decisions are cut and dried

there is shit going on that we Americans have no clue about.

you just got to believe in your leaders.

I know that hard when its Obama

haters