We're INTERPOL and We're Here to Help

Breaking news, Readers. Read this. Then read this.

Got it? Under cover of the loud kerfuffle of a major Healthcare debate, your President quietly signed an Executive Order granting INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, full diplomatic immunity in the United States. This means INTERPOL is now a sort of Super Cop on American shores. With full immunity, they can go anywhere, do anything, collect and store whatever information they desire, and are not subject to anyone's oversight, authority, freedom of information requests, prosecution, or judicial restraint of any sort at any time.

In short, the Constitutional search and seizure protections of all American citizens are not applicable against INTERPOL agents within the United States.

What possible reason would our President have for granting such extraordinary status to a foreign police force in America? For starters, read this. That's a Wall Street Journal article informing us that the International Criminal Court's Chief Prosecutor opened up a file in November, 2009 on possible U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan. And this tells us that INTERPOL assists the "Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court" in its fight against War Crimes, including the sharing of any and all information it may have. It appears, then, that our President desires to help the local INTERPOL office as it collects information on American citizens for possible prosecution for War Crimes. That is, it appears this is so, but we can't know for sure because President Obama has immunized INTERPOL from being forced to divulge just what it is up to.

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In this respect, another interesting wrinkle here is this quote: "Waterboarding is torture ... Adherence to the rule of law strengthens security.” That was Attorney General Eric Holder at his Senate Confirmation Hearing, boldly accusing the Bush Administration of committing the crime of torture. He also made a lot of noise in the first part of this year about prosecuting CIA agents for waterboarding certain "high-value" detainees, before the public hue and cry against him made him table the idea. At a minimum, Mr. Holder clearly is sympathetic with the ICC's desire to investigate the U.S. for War Crimes. Did I mention that INTERPOL's U.S. office is ... in the Department of Justice? Yes, it is. Any possibility Mr. Holder is assisting INTERPOL in any investigations they may be conducting?

You be the judge. I quote here from an article in August of this year by Andy McCarthy, which you should read in its entirety: "Holder was “pressed on whether that meant the United States would cooperate with a foreign court prosecuting Bush administration officials.” He skirted the question in a way Americans ought to find alarming. The attorney general indicated that he was speaking only about “evidentiary requests.” Translation: The Obama administration will not make arrests and hand current or former American government officials over for foreign trials, but if the Europeans or U.N. functionaries (at the nudging of, say, the Organization of the Islamic Conference) want Justice’s help gathering evidence in order to build triable cases — count us in."

So what is the President up to? In my opinion, he is in the process of selling down the river a few of his fellow U.S. citizens, pursuant to a far-left, fringe, crazy as a Truther, ideological agenda.

But, he might have a very good reason for doing what he did. If so, then I think he needs to tell us what that reason is. Right now.