Lie Pie Title: Obama hands the U.S. over to jack-booted Interpol thugs!
Lie Pie Classification: election lie pie, terror pie

Editor's note:  This one does my conspiracy theorist heart proud!  It's a doozy.  If you heard this one and scrambled onto your roof to mount a machine gun turret in preparation for the coming battle against armed invaders, I don't blame you.  Honey, I'm so sorry you got yourself all worked up, but there ain't nothing nefarious going on between Barack Obama and Interpol.  I know how much it hurts when a simple explanation brings down your favorite conspiracy theory like a mountain lion on your yapping pet dog.  Come here so I can give you a squeeze.

Let me break it down for you, honey:  Interpol opened its first U.S. office in 2004.  Since Interpol staff were now assigned permanently for the first time to this brand new office in New York, George W. Bush's administration discussed granting these half-dozen or so Interpol employees some of the same immunities provided to diplomats and employees of similar international organizations.  President Bush didn't get around to granting these immunities before leaving office, so it was left to the Obama administration to handle.  That's it.  Sorry.  I'm disappointed too, honey, you know I am.

You can read more here, here, and here.    --Granny, 3/30/2010

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

December 17, 2009

Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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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.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 16, 2009.