cross-posted here
Glenn Greenwald – Salon quotes law professor Glenn Reynolds:
This has been obvious for a long time anyway, and I don’t understand why the Bush Administration has been so slow to respond. Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs’ expat business interests out of business, etc.
Basically, stepping on the Iranians’ toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003. But as far as I can tell, we’ve done nothing along these lines.
What can you add to that? A law professor at a state-funded university is advocating the assassination of Iranian scientists.
You’d think a law professor would understand that this go against Executive Order 12333 – United States Intelligence Activities which was put in effect by a Republican president:
No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.
Amazing.