Barry gives INTERPOL immunity from the Freedom of Information Act

Executive Order 13524 of December 16, 2009


Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a

Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain

Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities

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), it is hereby ordered that Executive

Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting

from the first sentence the words ‘‘except those provided by Section 2(c),

Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act’’ and the semicolon

that immediately precedes them.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 16, 2009.

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Now here's the EO Obama is amending:

Executive Order 12425


by Ronald Reagan

International Criminal Police Organizations

Delivered on 16 June 1983.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288), it is hereby ordered that the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), in which the United States participates pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 263a, is hereby designated as a public international organization entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions and immunities conferred by the International Organizations Immunities Act; except those provided by Section 2(c), the portions of Section 2(d) and Section 3 relating to customs duties and federal internal-revenue importation taxes, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect the privileges, exemptions or immunities which such organization may have acquired or may acquire by international agreement or by Congressional action.



RONALD REAGAN

The White House,

June 16,1983.

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Kinda makes you wonder why we have the Freedom of Information Act.  What good is it if everyone is immune?