political assassination. so wean the church committee expose and the president's direct order, the instructions seemed to be kind of clear, right? the cia's an organization for spying in other countries, not killing people in other countries. how is is that working out the national security correspondent for the "new york times" just today published an account of the ways our government has been killing people since 9/11 without always admitting to it. because mark is a real on the ground reporter not just a blow hard like me who pontificates about things like me in print, one of the things we get from his account is a ton of new detail like we've never had before and some has big political implications. some doesn't and it's just amazing stuff to know. for for example, the first early model predator drones. not just to do surveillance, but to shoot missiles.