Reno Hayek Symposium

The White House manages news release for maximum effect and in this case MINIMUM exposure:

Executive Order Granting Immunity from US Law to INTERPOL released December 17th. We are one of the 188 member countries in this international police force which is relatively autonomous. In 1983 President Reagan recognized it and granted it some privileges extended to foreign diplomats, but INTERPOL was still subject to our laws of search and seizure and its records subject to the freedom of information act. Obama’s executive order exempts INTERPOL property from search and confiscation and makes its archived records inviolable. Thus, INTERPOL has more power, greater secrecy, and greater immunity than any law enforcement agency in the US including the FBI!

One of the great dangers here is the arrest and prosecution of US citizens, including political office holders, members of the military, and intelligence officers for “crimes against humanity” for doing their duty in service of this country. Obama is seeking to bring make the US subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Yes, Obama would forego our sovereignty and void the legal principle of primacy of American law on American soil! In November we saw an Italian court convict 23 CIA agents in absentia for grabbing Osama Nasr with Italian security co-oeration! And in May Spain’s top investigative judge launched a new criminal investigation into allegations of torture at Guantanamo Bay! Both of these were mentioned in my November 6th post. Are we now to see this happen here?

As Andy McCarthy asks in his December 23 NRO Corner post: “Why would 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 which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?” Steve Schippert has a complete analysis on his Threats Watch post.

Barack Hussein Obama has traveled the world bowing and apologizing for the United States as he seeks to Europeanize us. Now without any press briefing or explanation he has relinquished some of our major rights and protections to an international nongovernmental organization. Is it curious that he issued this order the week before Christmas when it was unlikely to get any press attention? He is a danger to our security.

Tom Motherway