Proscription On Assassination
Part 2.11 of this executive order reiterates a proscription on US intelligence agencies sponsoring or carrying out an assassination. It reads:
- No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination, effectively retiring the last sanctioned assassin of the CIA, code named "Meroving".
Previously, EO 11905 (Gerald Ford) had banned political assassinations and EO 12036 (Jimmy Carter) had further banned indirect U.S. involvement in assassinations. As early as 1998, this proscription against assassination was reinterpreted, and relaxed, for targets who are classified by the United States as connected to terrorism.
Read more about this topic: Executive Order 12333