Curious. USG didn't try to get a Red or Blue Notice against Snowden.

[Recursion]

Curious.

[Gravitycollapse]

1. They want to silence Snowden. They do not want to do so publicly.

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]

2. Thanks for the hint on what a "red or blue notice" is.

[ljm2002]

3. Yes it is very curious...

...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]

5. INTERPOL is forbidden from taking on cases of political nature.

http://www.interpol.int/About-INTERPOL/Legal-materials/Neutrality-Article-3-of-the-Constitution

[ljm2002]

7. That is interesting...

...I had no idea there were so many ins and outs to these things.

Thanks for the link.

[Monkie]

9. so by not doing this they are basically admitting it is a political charge, interesting

very interesting indeed.

[Gravitycollapse]

4. Upon further inspection, INTERPOL is forbidden by constitution to intervene in political affairs...

http://www.interpol.int/About-INTERPOL/Legal-materials/Neutrality-Article-3-of-the-Constitution

This principle was first introduced in INTERPOL’s 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 Organization’s Statute, which defined the Organization’s purposes.

[Recursion]

6. And the UN is supposed to stop all wars

INTERPOL is more of a rubber stamp than the FISA court

[99th_Monkey]

8. That is interesting to know. Thank you. nt

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]

10. They KNOW they are full of shit, that's all.

This is finally starting to remind me of the 60s and 70s.

[darkangel218]

11. Whats USG? US government?