President Obama quietly signed an executive order granting immunity to Interpol on December 17. Although blogs picked up on the story, the media ignored it.
This morning the Washington Examiner reported that they have asked officials at the White House about this order, but haven’t yet received a response. There are a few pretty big questions that need to be answered.
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?
This is serious, and the White House should have to answer these questions.
Yesterday, Jake Tapper (ABC News) tweeted early in the day that he asked the White House twice about this order. Late last night he tweeted that he got a response from the administration, but there hasn’t been anything since.
Nearly two weeks after the president signed the executive order, we still have no explanation as to why.
This is serious, but in typical nefarious Obamaesque style, most Americans have no clue as to the gravity of this action. This is Obama’s hidden vehicle to remove blame from him and his agenda to pursue the military, capitalists, and political enemies by funneling them to the international court. If this sticks and future administrations must deal with this, we will have to treat Interpol’s activities as spies in our own nation.
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If the media would talk about it, more Americans would be aware. But they’ll protect their man at all costs. Even if it means having a “security force” in the US that is above US law.
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We cannot expect a media that didn’t even report Obama’s not knowing how many states we have to report anything else that might harm his popularity. They ignore almost EVERYTHING about this guy just to protect him from the truth.
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This makes the Patriot Act look like childs play.
They screamed from the mountain top that Bush was another Hitler.
Now we hear………….crickets.
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