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BREAKING: Senator Lindsay Graham calls for Russians to assassinate Putin
Reminder: Benghazi, Gaddafi…
US Senators Call For Gaddafi’s Assassination
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told CNN: “Right now there’s just not enough momentum by the rebels… So my recommendation to NATO and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off. Go to Tripoli, start bombing Gaddafi’s inner circle, their compounds, their military headquarters.”
Republican Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, who visited Benghazi last Friday to meet with members of the opposition Transitional National Council, called for the immediate US recognition of the rebel body so that money and armaments could be sent.
[No Name] McCain [declared] that the former Gaddafi ministers, [CIA-linked figures] and Islamists who are known to be in the council [“represent the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people.”]
https://www.countercurrents.org/cogan250411.htm
The Broad Federal "Threat Attempt" Prohibition Vis-à-vis Foreign Leaders
Examine first, if you will, the broad prohibition against threatening or intimidating foreign officials, which is a misdemeanor offense. This is found in Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 112(b), which states: "Whoever willfully – (1) … threatens … a foreign official …, [or] (2) attempts to… threaten … a foreign official … shall be fined under this titled or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."
The Federal Threat Statute: Fines and Prison For Threats to Kidnap or Injure
It is a federal felony to use instruments of interstate or foreign commerce to threaten other people. The statute is clear, and simple. Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 875(c), states: "Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/was-pat-robertsons-call-for-assassination-of-a-foreign-leader-a-crime.html
(a) [Whoever] [assaults], strikes, wounds, imprisons, or [offers violence to a foreign official]
or attempts to commit any of the foregoing shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever willfully—
(1) intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign official or an official guest or obstructs a foreign official in the performance of his duties
(c) For the purpose of this section “foreign government”, “foreign official”, “internationally protected person”, “international organization”, “national of the United States”, and “official guest” shall have the same meanings as those provided in section 1116(b) of this title.
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/112
(3) “Foreign official” means—
(A) a Chief of State or the political equivalent, President, Vice President, Prime Minister, Ambassador, Foreign Minister…
(4) “Internationally protected person” means—
(A) a Chief of State or the political equivalent, head of government, or Foreign Minister whenever such person is in a country other than his own and any member of his family accompanying him
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1116#b
An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort
https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Verbal+assault