Friday, July 25, 2003
Executive orders....
Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905, signed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 (after the CIA failed for the umpteenth time to assassinate Castro), states: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination."
In 1981, President Reagan broadened this definition with Executive Order 12333, which has never been repealed, and which states: "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."
Remember the last time a dictator's child was killed? Well, the dictator was one Col Gadafi of Libya and the outcome was, effectively, Pan-Am flight 103.
