Performance of all agencies of the Federal Government engaged in the collection, evaluation, or production of intelligence or the executionof intelligence policy.
Yet the open employment of judicially sanctioned execution as a matter of public policy is different from the use of military terror and death squads, practices which even the harshest regimes usually feel ashamed enough about to deny.
The Foreign Office says its policy is to use "all appropriate influence" to prevent the executionof a British national including "high-level political lobbying when necessary".