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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCurious. USG didn't try to get a Red or Blue Notice against Snowden.
Curious.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)So issuing a red or blue notice through Interpol would be a PR disaster and would only draw more attention to the issue. Walking on egg shells.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...and it makes me wonder if there are even more layers to this story than we think. Given the importance of this case, and how publicly it is all playing out, you'd think they would dot their i's and cross their t's...
...but then I snap out of it and go back to taking it (mostly) at face value... i.e. that Snowden is who he says he is, and that he did what he did for the reasons he claims, and that our government really does want to arrest him.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...I had no idea there were so many ins and outs to these things.
Thanks for the link.
Monkie
(1,301 posts)very interesting indeed.
Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)This principle was first introduced in INTERPOLs Statute in 1948, when the phrase "to the strict exclusion of all matters having a political, religious or racial character" was added to the end of Article 1(1) of the Organizations Statute, which defined the Organizations purposes.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)INTERPOL is more of a rubber stamp than the FISA court
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Setting Interpol up that way makes really good sense, and I
can only hope they are following their constitution more
scrupulously than we have been for the past 10-15 years.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)This is finally starting to remind me of the 60s and 70s.