JFK, Assassination, and the National Security State

LewRockwell · Nov 9, 2026

Ever since the U.S. government was converted to a national-security state after World War II, the national-security branch of the government — i.e., the military and the CIA — has wielded the power of assassination. Mind you, there was no constitutional amendment authorizing the federal government to wield this omnipotent, totalitarian-like power. It just automatically came with the conversion to a national-security state, whose inherent powers include assassination.

The federal government’s assassination power, as we have seen in recent years as part of the “war on terrorism,” is ordinarily…