What are your opinions regarding these articles? Personally it seems as a very sleazy way to allow the government to keep documents out of the hands of the US Court System, and outside public accountability, as well as a way to end-run the Constitution, most particularly the 4th Amendment.
The President does have the authority issue executive orders, but he's not supposed to be able to arbitrarily waive the Constitutional Rights of the people...
Well, I must say that this new development is disturbing. Up until now, if Obama wanted to conceal some incriminating document, and he was too dumb to know how to use a paper shredder, his only option would have been to lodge it with one of the organizations which already have these same privileges, so in effect his choices would have been limited to the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the African Union, the Asian Development Bank, the Border Environment Cooperation Commission, the Caribbean Organization, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Commission for Labor Cooperation, the Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal, the Council of Europe in Respect of the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO), the Customs Cooperation Council, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Central Bank, the European Space Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices, the Inter-American Defense Board, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the Inter-American Statistical Institute, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Coffee Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Cotton Institute, the International Development Association, the International Development Law Institute, the International Fertilizer Development Center, the International Finance Corporation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the International Hydrographic Bureau, the International Joint Commission—United States and Canada, the International Labor Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service, the International Telecommunication Union, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT), the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the International Wheat Advisory Committee (International Wheat Council), the Interparliamentary Union, the Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation, the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Multinational Force and Observers, the North American Development Bank, the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, the North Pacific Marine Science Organization, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (now known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Organization of American States (includes Pan American Union), the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Pacific Salmon Commission, the Pan American Health Organization (includes Pan American Sanitary Bureau), the Preparatory Commission of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (now known as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration), the South Pacific Commission, the United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI), the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, the Universal Postal Union, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Tourism Organization, the World Trade Organization, or any country with an embassy on U.S. soil.
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now if he wants to conceal a piece of incriminating evidence, he
also has the option of turning it over to a group of international crime fighters.
