[Morgan in Denver]

Comment on this issue.  Thanks to a post by tcrlaf. on the Clinton FNS thread. I would also point out, this was a result of the Democrats in congress and their efforts to take power away from the president after Richard Nixon.

Interview Quote"I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/04/us.assassination.policy/

CNN-Novenber 4,2002...
In a section of the order labeled "Restrictions on Intelligence Activities," Ford outlawed political assassination: Section 5(g), entitled "Prohibition on Assassination," states: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination."

Since 1976, every U.S. president has upheld Ford's prohibition on assassinations. In 1978 President Carter issued an executive order with the chief purpose of reshaping the intelligence structure. In Section 2-305 of that order, Carter reaffirmed the U.S. prohibition on assassination.

In 1981, President Reagan, through Executive Order 12333, reiterated the assassination prohibition. Reagan was the last president to address the topic of political assassination. Because no subsequent executive order or piece of legislation has repealed the prohibition, it remains in effect.

[johnny7]

So in summing up... Clinton lied as usual in the Wallace interview.