How red is Canada?

Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?"

According to Bush Administration staff, Yes.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked Bradbury questions about the extent of presidential powers to fight Al Qaeda; could Bush, for instance, order the killing of a Qaeda suspect known to be on U.S. soil? Bradbury replied that he believed Bush could indeed do this.

In the reality based community, such an act, even againts a bad guy? it is still a class A felony.

§705-512 Grading of criminal solicitation. Criminal solicitation is an offense one class or grade, as the case may be, less than the offense solicited; provided that criminal solicitation to commit murder in any degree is a class A felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; am L 1997, c 149, §2]


If you or I wanted to have someone else kill a person for us, we would depending on where you live, go to jail forever or be put on death row. The Imperial Presidency strikes again.