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To provide real assurance, President Obama should publish clear guidelines for targeting to be carried out by nonpoliticians, making assassination truly a last resort, and allow an outside court to review the evidence before placing Americans on a kill list.
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In a similar vein of perversity, Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical Assassins looks at the sorry lives of American presidential assassins, from Oswald and Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth, to less canonical figures such as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and John Hinckley, who made assassination attempts, respectively, on presidents Ford and Reagan.
The low risk to the killers has at times helped make assassinations a favored political tool.
Hariri was scheduled to give a speech later on Saturday at a ceremony making the assassination.
Donald Trump has been accused of a making an "assassination threat" against rival Hillary Clinton, plunging his presidential campaign into a fresh crisis.
Let's hope the fans of Ann (Have you no sense of decency?) Coulter aren't taking her revisionist view of McCarthyism too seriously and making character assassination fashionable again on the Potomac.
"Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: the right to criticize; the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right to independent thought.
Senator Smith was famous for her Declaration of Conscience during the McCarthy era in which she complained that those "who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who... ignore [its] basic principles".
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