Assassination

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File:Jfk assassination.jpg The JFK Assassination sparked a wave of killings in the USA as the cabal responsible for his death tried to cover their tracks and consolidate their power base.
Assassination is the extra-judicial killing of particular people, often indicative of deep politics at work. Illegal under most legal systems, the Western commercially controlled media has recently been introducing a euphemism for this: if carried out by "us" (Western democracies such as the USA) against "them" (demonized bogeymen), the preferred term is "targeted killing", the legality of which goes unquestioned.

Assassination, or "targeted killing" as it is euphemistically called (especially when carried out by drones), has long been a key feature of deep politics. Many intelligence agencies have hit squads tasked with carrying out assassinations in such as a way as to either make the premature deaths appear accidental or at least to maintain their own plausible deniability.

Official Narrative

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An essential part of all but the most urgent deep political assassinations in the cover story which is used either to hide the murder (i.e. as a suicide or a fatal accident) or to obscure the true motives and perpetrators. Official investigations regularly declare assassinations to be the work of "lone nuts", while those who question the official narrative are termed "conspiracy theorists".

Where killings have been openly admitted by intelligence agencies or military groups, they are seldom if ever termed as "assassinations" or "murders" by the commercially-controlled media unless carried out by "enemy" nation states. Euphemisms such as "targeted killing" are de rigueur.

Targeted Killing

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Until the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, the US government refused to publicly admit it carried out targeted killings. When this was publicly admitted, the BBC did not use the word "assassination", choosing instead to headline their report "US approves killing US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki".

Wikipedia reports that "Targeted killing is the intentional killing – by a government or its agents – of a civilian or 'unlawful combatant' targeted by the government". It gives prominence to the ideas of Georgetown Law Professor Gary Solis, who in his 2010 book entitled "The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War" wrote that "Assassinations and targeted killings are very different acts". The phrase might have been designed to hide the true nature of the fact - many drone strikes are not of known individuals, but so - called "signature strikes", i.e. assassinations of unknown people based not on their identity but on their behavior, which is perceived (currently probably only by humans, but in the future quite possible by software) as suspicious.

By Nation

Israel

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Israel has openly pursued a policy of "targeted killing" since the inception of the second intifada in September 2000, and has killed hundreds if not thousands since then. This policy has broad support amongst the Israeli population, yet is internationally considered a war crime.

US

US President Gerald Ford's Executive Order 11905 banned political assassinations, declaring that "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." Citing numerous examples, Mark Gorton states that "The criminal forces within the national security state have a long history killing many people for the purposes of hiding the death of one, key, high profile individual." Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333 (December 4, 1981) reiterated that "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination" - a prohibition that in 1998, the Washington Post admitted that the US government was tacitly ignoring.

Andrew B. Adler of the Atlanta Jewish Times has (in writing) called for the assassination of Obama in January 2012 and opined in the form of a question, that the "idea has been discussed in Israel's most inner circles".

Dallas Occupy Plot

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The memo which Jason Leopold discovered that lead to the partial exposure of the Dallas occupy plot.

MIT students in 2013 used FOIA to uncover heavily redacted documents reveal that the FBI either turned a blind eye to or abetted a plot to assassinate leaders of the Dallas Occupy movement. US District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ordered the FBI to explain why it isn't cooperating with an investigation into the assassination plot. The US Justice Department has declined to comment on the matter.

Operation 40

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A somewhat infamous photo of Operation 40, including Porter Goss, Barry Seal, Felix Rodriguez, et al.

The CIA's Operation 40 is a hit squad originally organised out of the JM/WAVE station in Miami. It was constituted mainly of Cubans recruited by Jose Sanjenis Perdomo, and was formed with the origin aim of assassinating Fidel Castro. The group reportedly carried out multiple assassinations. Several JFK researchers including Daniel Hopsicker and Mark Gorton have claimed that many members of the group were involved in the JFK Assassination.

Post 9-11 Change

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Three days after 9/11, the US congress gave "Authorization for Use of Military Force" (AUMF) to the US president. This vague legal statue has been stretched to legalize assassination of al-Qaeda purported leaders. People on the target list are considered military enemies of the US, and therefore not subject to earlier legislation. The US has not signed the International Convention against Forced Disappearance. The US government consistently refuses to directly address the legality of military drones. In May 2013 Barack Obama referenced a presidential policy guidance on the matter, but only a 2-page summary has been released - the text itself remains classified.

UK

The UK, historically, has not publicly admitted to use of assassinations, the Chief of the SIS even going so far as to claim that MI6 never carried out assassinations. However, it was legalised in the UK by the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill that legalised a huge swath of crimes by UK spooks. The bill was was introduced in UK parliament in October 2020. Keir Starmer, as UK Leader of the opposition instructed Labour MPs to abstain, but 34 opposed the legislation in the vote, despite which the Bill's passed by 313 votes to 98.

The controversial legislation - dubbed the “Spycops” bill - sets out new legal rights for undercover agents to commit crimes to “prevent disorder” or maintain “economic well-being”. But critics including Amnesty International have described the bill as a “licence for government agencies to authorise torture and murder”, as it does not explicitly rule out such crimes.