> The other sinister act was bombing Milosevic's house, which Serbs regarded > as an open assassination attack. > Louis Proyect for what it's worth, the US gov't has been prohibited from carrying out assassinations and assassination attempts since Gerald Ford signed Executive Order 11095 (I think) in 1976...Ford's EO was a response to the Church committee hearings disclosing the CIA's role in the murder of Patrice Lumumba and the attempts on Castro, among others...the vile *New Republic* maintains that the fact that a Republican prez did this indicates how "far out" the immediate post-Vietnam era was... Carter issued EO 11895 (if memory serves) superseding Ford's and Reagan signed EO 12333 superseding Carter's...Neither Bush nor Clinton altered Reagan's EO...Clinton, however, has looked to circumvent EO 12333 by claiming that deadly force against a foreign leader is not the same as assassination...he is working with some congressional members to overturn the policy...his pal, rabid right-wing attack dog Bob Barr from Georgia, who led the way for House Republican impeachers, has submitted a bill to do just that...Michael Hoover
