{"id":3044,"date":"2010-01-08T01:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2010-01-08T01:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T06:55:33","slug":"obama-interpol-icc-axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3044\/obama-interpol-icc-axis\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Interpol, ICC Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think the Obama Administration couldn\u2019t get more nefarious, the president goes and signs an <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MGY3MTI4YTRjZmYwMGU1ZjZhOGJmNmQ0NmJiZDNmMDY= \" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> that fundamentally weakens the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 Right around the time Senators were passing their version of health care \u201creform\u201d the president rescinded parts of a Reagan-era executive order applying American law to Interpol agents working in the United States.\u00a0 The parts rescinded required Interpol agents to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests and submit to search and seizure procedures.\u00a0 Now, those requirements are no more.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Did I mention that these agents are mostly Americans working in offices provided in the Justice Department?<\/p>\n<p>Why would President Obama do such a thing?\u00a0 The consensus in the blogosphere is that this move <a href=\"http:\/\/threatswatch.org\/analysis\/2009\/12\/print\/wither_sovereignty\/ \" target=\"_blank\">opens the door<\/a> 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. \u00a0If this is true, members of the previous White House team \u2013 including President Bush himself \u2013 may need to double check their home security systems and attorney speed dials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think the Obama Administration couldn\u2019t get more nefarious, the president goes and signs an executive order that fundamentally weakens the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 Right around the time Senators were passing their version of health care \u201creform\u201d the president rescinded parts of a Reagan-era executive order applying American law to Interpol agents working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,709,710],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-icc","tag-interpol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}