With this statement, Geithner has essentially threatened the United States with economic catastrophe. It seems to me that men have been legally killed by the government for lesser threats.
There is a government policy that the US will not assassinate foreign leaders. However, Geithner is not a foreign leader, and if his threat is seen as a clear and present danger to the US, it might invoke mechanisms to remove such a threat.
Such was the case of the late Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who was alleged to have sold classified information about National Security Agency listening posts to the Chinese.
While what he is alleged to have done was damaging to the agency, what Geithner is doing could cause a severe depression harming millions of Americans.
With this statement, Geithner has essentially threatened the United States with economic catastrophe. It seems to me that men have been legally killed by the government for lesser threats.
There is a government policy that the US will not assassinate foreign leaders. However, Geithner is not a foreign leader, and if his threat is seen as a clear and present danger to the US, it might invoke mechanisms to remove such a threat.
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