It may seem a quaint consideration in these post-9/11 days, but in the wake of the 1975 Church Committee’s report criticizing abuses by the U.S. intelligence community, presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan all signed assassination bans. The most recent, Executive Order 12333, Section 2.12 states, “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”
