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Just when you think the Obama Administration couldn’t get more nefarious, the president goes and signs an executive order that fundamentally weakens the U.S. Constitution.  Right around the time Senators were passing their version of health care “reform” the president rescinded parts of a Reagan-era executive order applying American law to Interpol agents working in the United States.  The parts rescinded required Interpol agents to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests and submit to search and seizure procedures.  Now, those requirements are no more.  Coupled with their pre-existing diplomatic immunity this means that a foreign law enforcement agency is now permitted to operate above and beyond American law while in the United States.  Did I mention that these agents are mostly Americans working in offices provided in the Justice Department?

Why would President Obama do such a thing?  The consensus in the blogosphere is that this move opens the door for prosecutions before the International Criminal Court (ICC), a global war crimes tribunal created by a treaty that the United States is not a party to.  If this is true, members of the previous White House team – including President Bush himself – may need to double check their home security systems and attorney speed dials.