In yesterday's State Department Daily Press Briefing, a reporter asked the spokesperson about the possibility of getting the Pakistanis to agree to the listing of the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The question:
Maybe you could explain... what difference it would make in terms of the actual sanctions, if you put them on the FTO list.The administration spokesperson was unable to say. My thought is, does that designation allow the President to order the assassination of the group's members or leaders?
Or does the President already have that power, since some the the Network's leaders are already on the list as designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists?
Or does none of that make any difference in proscribing the President's power to kill?
Does anyone know?