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Dirty Little Secrets
License to Kill Revoked
by James Dunnigan
December 25, 2005
Discussion Board on this DLS topic
December 7, 2005: Apparently the U.S. Navy
SEALs have lost their blanket license to kill. In a recently issued
navy document, it was announced that, "Under no circumstances shall any
Department of the Navy personnel condone, support, encourage, engage
in, or conspire to engage in the assassination of a specific individual
or individuals." There was no other discussion of this in the
Department of the Navy (which consists of the Navy and Marine Corps as
two separate entities). Chances are, the admonition was issued as a
bureaucratic covering of ones rear end. However, American Special
Operations and intelligence operatives have been forbidden from using
assassination for years. Then again, in wartime, how does one tell the
difference between assassination and just another wartime killing.
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