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How the Justice Department foils assassination plots in the U.S. (www.npr.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Credit where credit's due, I have to admit the Biden has apparently been better in how they handled US allies attempting to assassinate people on our soil than prior administrations have been.

In some related news, TIL

back during the Cold War, some American allies were doing just that. One of them was Chile's General Augusto Pinochet. In 1976, Chilean intelligence operatives killed a former ambassador, Orlando Letelier, and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt in a car bombing in Washington, D.C.

and

Five years after the Letelier bombing, two union organizers in Seattle were murdered inside their local union office. A U.S. court later found Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda liable for the murders. The killings were said to be in retaliation for the men's anti-Marcos organizing.

and

in 1984, a Chinese American named Henry Liu was gunned down in the garage of his home in Daly City, Calif. Members of a Taiwanese criminal gang, acting at the behest of Taiwan's military intelligence, were convicted of the murder.

e; better phrasing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Trump just let the assassination happen in the Turkish embassy. And then was okay with Saudi Arabia to refuse to let his American citizen children out.

I don't know if Biden has done anything about that. I hope he has, if he can.