(Guest post by Greg Forster)
On top of the administration’s penchant for government control of newspapers and creating bogus “emergencies” in order to claim emergency powers, now the indispensable Andy McCarthy brings us the news that it has quietly signed an executive order to permit Interpol (the international criminal justice organization) to operate in the U.S. totally immune from all U.S. law, including the Constitution itself.
In addition to all the obvious threats this raises - such as the denying of basic civil rights to targets of Interpol’s investigations, and Interpol’s close relationship with foreign governments and international agencies hostile to the United States – McCarthy also notes that the executive order means Interpol archives, housed in the Justice Department, will be exempt not only from FOIA or any other form of transparency, but even from subpoena by Congress or the courts.
McCarthy asks:
Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?
And these people think they’re the guardians of civil rights and we’re the aspiring tyrants!
Merry Christmas. Hope you’re all still here in the New Year.
