Chuck Norris writes in his Aug. 2 WorldNetDaily column:
Now, it finally is coming to light why back on Dec. 16, 2009, Obama signed an executive order “designating Interpol [International Criminal Police Organization] as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions and immunities.”
Glenn Beck spoke for a host of other government watchdogs back then, when he asked on the air on his Jan. 7 show, “We’ve been asking ever since it was signed: Why? Who can tell me what special-interest group asked for this? If it were about terror, why not tell us that when he signed it? This Congress attacks our CIA and FBI, but Interpol gets immunity? Why? It makes no sense.”
It all comes down to one basic verb. Can you find it in the following paragraph?
Obama’s executive order reads, “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) …”
There’s the magic verb: “to extend”!
As I wrote in an earlier column on Interpol, is it also just coincidental that Interpol is exempt from typical American search-and-seizure laws?
Anyone still not connecting the dots?
In fact, as was detailed when Glenn Beck first pushed the claim, the executive order does not give Interpol the power to arrest U.S. citizens, and Interpol already had immunity from lawsuits in the U.S. — granted by President Reagan! Further, Interpol is not a traditional police force that his officers who arrest people; its functions are mostly investigative and record-keeping, and local law enforcement is used to conduct any actual arrests.