(Character) Assassination « NewsReal Blog: "The old definition of a Puritan is a person who is constantly worried that somewhere, someone is having a good time. The new definition of a “Progressive” should be a person who worries that somewhere, someone is trying to kill terrorists. Rachel Maddow fit the bill last night on MSNBC.
Maddow mentioned a new wrinkle in the covert CIA concept that Congressional leftists exposed in June, which was never operational. According to The New York Times, the Agency hired the private security firm Blackwater as part of this plan.
Maddow launched into an exceptionally ill-informed speech:
War is one thing, but since the Ford administration, there has been an executive order in place banning assassinations by the U.S. government. So it’s little bit of a murky question as to whether or not this sort of thing would be legal if these killings happened in the U.S. or in a country that is an ally of ours. What happens if local law enforcement arrests the hit squad?…Who gets to hold them accountable if something goes haywire?"
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