CNSNews.com - Obama’s Interpol Order Won’t Send ‘Blue Bereted Officers’ Onto American Streets, Expert Says

CNSNews.com - Obama’s Interpol Order Won’t Send ‘Blue Bereted Officers’ Onto American Streets, Expert Says: "(CNSNews.com) – An executive order signed by President Barack Obama on Dec. 16 extending certain legal exemptions to the international crime clearinghouse Interpol may limit civil oversight of the organization, including preventing citizens and citizens’ groups from gaining access to its records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). But it will not mean 'blue bereted officers' will operate freely on the streets of America's cities, said an expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

“There are already too many unaccountable, opaque organizations operating in the United States, most obviously the United Nations,” Steven Groves, the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, told CNSNews.com.

But, Groves said, Interpol -- founded in 1923 and made up of 188 country members, including the United States, to share information about international criminal investigations -- works closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Interpol has a bureau inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) staffed by American officials."