More secret changes in the law. These guys are so fast changing things is hard to keep up.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3476929"The handoff from Rockefeller to Church began a two-year investigative process involving 142 staff members and 11 senators. In the end, more than 10 volumes of information were produced and various legislative and regulatory reforms were implemented. One of the most significant was a unanimous recommendation that the United States adopt a statute prohibiting political assassination.
The Congress did not adopt the legislation. However, in 1977 after President Carter was sworn into office with Walter Mondale as his vice president, an executive order was issued prohibiting the use of political assassination. Mondale, a former member of the Church committee, implemented the policy in the new administration.
Under Presidents Reagan, Bush "41" and Clinton, the executive order prohibiting political assassination was maintained and honored. As has now been publicly revealed, the administration of Bush "43" secretly repealed the prohibition on assassination. In its place, under the omnipresent 9/11 rationale, the U.S. is back in the business of assassination.
If a poll of Americans were taken, most would acknowledge the perplexing problem of torture and other abuses chronicled in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, very few, if any, would be aware of the change in policy on assassination. The news media have covered the problem of torture, to an extent that most viewers and readers are numb to the news. "
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