Obama’s Interpol Order – Much Ado About Nothing?

January 11, 2010
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So says Steven Groves of The Heritage Foundation, according to CNS News.

“There are already too many unaccountable, opaque organizations operating in the United States, most obviously the United Nations,” Steven Groves, the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, told CNSNews.com.
 
But, Groves said, Interpol — founded in 1923 and made up of 188 country members, including the United States, to share information about international criminal investigations — works closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Interpol has a bureau inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) staffed by American officials.
 
As a criminal information clearinghouse, Interpol’s records include files on wanted criminals, known or suspected terrorists and other crimes, including stolen property or identities.
 
According to Groves and Interpol, the organization does not have officers who have the authority to make arrests.
 
“It’s not going to result in blue bereted officers arresting U.S. citizens on the streets and sending them to international courts,” Groves said.

Rachel Billington, an Interpol spokesman, told The New York Times last month that every member nation has authority over arrests and detention on its soil. …..

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