executive measure

executive measure
   a political murder
   Another Nazi evasion of the Second World War:
    'Lohse, I recommend that your office initiate an executive action aimed at Oberfuhrer Willi Ganz'...
   Executivmassnahme, a classic 'soft word' whose intent can be convincingly denied long after the corpses are counted. (Keneally, 1985)
   The CIA was said to describe an authorized assassination by one of its operatives as an executive action.

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