Interpol immunity

Andrew C. McCarthy writing at National Review Online: “Saying out loud that we need to immunize Interpol — to put it above the U.S. Constitution — in order to be more like Kenya, Thailand, Zimbabwe, etc., would not go over well. That would bode ill for the administration’s agenda to subjugate the U.S. to such transnationalist schemes as the Law of the Sea Treaty and the International Criminal Court. Better to say nothing . . . That the order is not a positive grant of new powers to Interpol is irrelevant. The point is that the order removes the negative legal restraints that block Interpol from conducting unauthorized police activity. And it’s cold comfort to argue, as Noble does, that Interpol has a strong record of respecting its traditional limitations. It is a fact of life that when governmental agencies and bureaucracies are suddenly unconstrained, they inevitably freelance into all sorts of activities previously closed to them.”