McNabb in the News (2-12-06)

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb has been featured in a Boston Globe article about Interpol.

While the power and utility of such a system seems undeniable, there are concerns about abuse. Douglas McNabb, an attorney with the international criminal defense firm McNabb Associates, questions the wisdom of sending classified information to Lyon. ''Some of the member countries are the very ones you don't want to see it," he says. Depending on the hands into which it falls, information could be as easily used to tip off criminals as to bring them to justice. It's also not at all clear that law enforcement agents in Cuba or Iran have the same understanding regarding standards of evidence-or, for that matter, what constitutes a crime in the first place-as law enforcement agents in the US.^[1]

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[1] Rebecca Ulam Weiner, To Protect and Save the World at 3, Boston Globe, Feb. 12, 2006.