Presidential Executive Order 12425

President Obama recently made this executive order:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425

So why should you care about section 2(c) and 2 (d)? The other parts of it really don't seem to make any difference overall. Yet those two exemptions being granted to Interpol is a significant deal. As it grants them the following:

2(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

2(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith; the registration of foreign agents; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments.

Legal speak over. In short 2(c) makes Interpol immune to Freedom of Information requests, as well as search and seizure by the police. 2(d) recognizes Interpol as immune to American law giving it the same status as a foreign government of another nation.

Why does this matter? The potential, and with human beings we all know if it can it will happen, for Interpol to operate as its own police force with its agents able to break any law they want without U.S. prosecution. Just think of how this worked at Abu Ghraib prison: the U.S. soldiers faced reprimand (yes, lightly, but another topic for another day), yet the civilian contractors working as translators had diplomatic immunity and got no punishment at all.

Now the Executive order by Obama doesn't say 2(d). So why did I mention it? Because that was deleted by Bill Clinton via Presidential Executive Order 12917. Why does this matter? Well, Reagan created the first executive order which has been amended twice. When he did he allowed Interpol to operate in the United States. However he made it so that U.S. law was still supreme over the land. Especially since Interpol doesn't actually work for a government, they are just a police cooperation internationally. There is no actual legally binding nation they work for.

How did I come to this conclusion? Common sense.

Yet don't expect that from Obama or a "government can be the solution" person of any kind. See, if the Interpol agents now do something wrong they have no court to punish them.

The opportunity to do wrong is all that is needed for something to go wrong. Humanity has proven it can't be trusted with power.