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…and Pete’s comment made me feel a bit inadequate in my knowledge of these pesky old executive orders…so I went and did some reading.
Yep, it is in there, sure enough. No assassinations.
I read a point paper that made a statement that was very well put. Why did the drafters of the EO not define what entails an assassination? Why did they remain silent? In the original, and every revision, they never specified what constitutes an assassination.
I mean…we all know the end result is death…but what makes the killing an assassination? It isn’t something so basic that we all know automatically what it is…that’s why we are all throwing out thoughts on if it is OK to kill this one ass-hat. Maybe that is why the drafters of the EO chose to remain silent on the subject. If the Administration did target and kill someone, who’s to say what the act was. Could be explained away like, “Naaaaaaw man, what we did was not an assassination…it was an premature, involuntary, termination of an elected term.”
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