CAN AMERICANS ASSASSINATE FOREIGN LEADERS? No. The USA has a policy (executive o

CAN AMERICANS ASSASSINATE FOREIGN LEADERS?
No. The USA has a policy (executive order) against assassinating heads of state. The policy effectively prevents the intelligence agencies from covert operations against foreign leaders.
Because it’s via an executive order, it can be rescinded by executive order. Which is the optimum legal means of applying and reversing such a policy by presidential discretion without dependence upon congressional debate.
This order does not apply to acts involving ongoing military operations or counterterrorism efforts, thus distinguishing them from prohibited assassinations.
As such the USA has decapitated many terrorists and some state leaders: bin Ladin, al-Awlaki, al-Baghdadi, al-Zawahiri, Soleimani, and of course Saddam by legal process of trial and execution – and more indirectly, by assisting the rebels, Gaddafi.

–“U.S. policy, as articulated in Executive Order 12333, Section 2.11, issued in 1981, prohibits the assassination of foreign leaders.”–

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