To be clear, the U.S. is no longer carrying out a small-scale assassination program with drones in Pakistan, targeting only high-level terrorists selectively approved by CIA legal and intelligence officials.
Under President Obama, the drone program has evolved from a small-scale, targeted assassination program to a much broader military action that resembles a conventional bombing campaign.
If Europe's crisis sets Ms Cooley's Judith adrift, America's crisis race does the same to Ms Miller's Tish.The book is set in the late 1960s, soon after Martin Luther King's assassination, in a small university town in Ohio.
They also defend their leaders against assassination attempts and harassment by small groups of insurgents, which the Marines have a harder time catching.
Union members who face intimidation and assassination; workers without labor rights; small farmers forced off their land; American workers pushed out of work - they are all paying attention.
We went to Salisbury, England, to see how the small town is recovering after the alleged assassination attempt of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
In addition to the Kennedy relief and eternal flame, papers and photographs relating to the subject of Israel-United States relations until the time of Kennedy's assassination are kept in a small library.
In the novel at least, the assassination is the work of a small group who have suffered more than most from the viciousness of the regime.
Why, asked one intelligence source, would Mr Putin arrange the assassination of a man considered somewhat small fry when the man who suffered was himself.
Having lived through both, albeit as a small child in the first instance, the JFK assassination was an even bigger event than 9/11.
