President Obama's Executive Order

INTERPOL and EO 13524 amending EO12425

By Henry Lamb T
hursday, December 31, 2009

There has been a rash of emails about President Obama’s Executive Order (EO) 13524 which amends EO 12425, granting INTERPOL certain privileges. Here is our brief analysis of the situation. http://www.ipu.org/finance-e/PL79-291.pdf

The Executive Order draws its authority from the International Organizations Immunities Act passed by the 79th Congress December 29, 1945. The law grants to designated organizations a list of “immunitiesâ€