Obama Surrenders U.S. Sovereignty: His INTERPOL Executive Order

At ThreatsWatch.org, Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton have dug up the bizarre and unsettling issuance of an executive order recently signed by President Barack Obama. Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425, signed December 16 and released a day later, grants the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) rights on American soil that place it beyond the reach of our own law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Schippert and Middleton note that Obama’s order removes protections placed upon INTERPOL by President Reagan in 1983. Obama’s order gives the group the authority to avoid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — which means this foreign law enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against governmental abuse. “Property and assets,” including the organization’s records, cannot be searched or seized. Their physical locations and records are now immune from U.S. legal or investigative authorities.

If the president of the United States has an aboveboard reason for making a foreign law enforcement agency exempt from American laws on American soil, it wasn’t shared by the White House....

From the US Department of Justice website:

Combating Environmental Crime with INTERPOL

December 9th, 2009 Posted by Tracy Russo

Today, the U.S. National Central Bureau (INTERPOL Washington) is hosting its first U.S. Interagency Environmental Crime Meeting. INTERPOL’s General Secretariat and INTERPOL Washington partnered in this effort to bring together approximately 35 representatives from federal agencies to discuss ways to foster communication and identify opportunities to enhance international cooperation and participation in combating environmental crime.

“I am quite pleased that INTERPOL Washington and INTERPOL’s General Secretariat have partnered in this great effort to build partnerships with federal agencies that have a strong focus in protecting our environment. I hope this meeting today will be the first of many as we all work collaboratively to prevent crimes that can have a detrimental effect on our environment both nationally and internationally,” stated INTERPOL Washington Director Timothy Williams.

Environmental crime is any breach of a national or international environmental law or treaty that exists to ensure the conservation and sustainability of the world’s environment, biodiversity, or natural resources. Examples of this type of crime include poaching and trafficking of wildlife and the illegal emission of pollutants into waterways or the air.

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Interpol could be shaping up to be Algore's own little army of enivro-Brownshirts. Another hot area of Interpol interest: so-called war crimes (our military members in Iraq and Afghanistan are prime targets of such prosecutorial overreach).

What Obama has done is give Interpol unfettered freedom to investigate the lives and businesses of US citizens in the United States in complete and utter secrecy. We're not allowed to know what methods were used or what information was collected. And Interpol is free to turn over the information to any other country or international tribunal such as the International Criminal Court for prosecution that can allege that a treaty or law was broken.

because you have to be a CITIZEN for it to be treason

However odious, BO's actions here are not treason under the very narrow definition given by the United States Constitution.

But... There is a legal theory that allows even non-citizens to be treated as citizens for purposes of treason prosecutions.

William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw" fled England as WWII broke out, and traveled to Germany to volunteer his services to Hitler. He soon became Goebbels leading English language propaganda broadcaster.

The Brits captured him at the end of the war, and tried him for treason. Joyce's defense was that he had actually been born in the United States, where his parents lived when he was born, and under the laws in place at the time of his birth, was not in fact a British subject, and could not have be convicted of treason against the British Crown.

The British courts said nope, you stated in writing that were a British subject when you registered to vote, and when you sought a British passport. You cannot now deny that you owe an allegiance to the King.

The legal doctrine is called estoppel, meaning that a litigant may be (in certain cases) precluded from denying in court the truth of a statement that they have previously sworn to be true. If I were a Birther (I'm not - just check my posts), and if this were treason (its not - read the Constitution), I would argue that by not only registering to vote, but actually winning elections and taking an oath that he "will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," BO is liable for prosecution for treason, notwithstanding his nationality.

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