A year later, Ford signed the EO to make sure such operations didn’t happen again.

Ford’s successors broadened the scope of his #assassination ban. First #JimmyCarter & then #RonaldReagan dropped the qualifier of “political.” Reagan directed that “no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.” Reagan’s version of the assassination ban remains in effect, last amended by #Bush in 2008. #Trump didn’t revoke it.

A year later, Ford signed the EO to make sure such operations didn’t happen again.

Ford’s successors broadened the scope of his #assassination ban. First #JimmyCarter & then #RonaldReagan dropped the qualifier of “political.” Reagan directed that “no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.” Reagan’s version of the assassination ban remains in effect, last amended by #Bush in 2008. #Trump didn’t revoke it.