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Um, what?

Also, I thought we were drawing down this mission and it would be over in three and a half weeks.
So late Tuesday, John Kelly, WH Chief of Staff, signed out a cabinet order allowing troops to perform law enforcement functions at the border AND to use lethal force.

This may run afoul of long standing Civil War era prohibitions on the use of the military domestically. 1/
For a more detailed discussion of the history of using US troops domestically, I recommend this #BombshellWotR episode: warontherocks.com/2018/11/bombsh…

But what strikes me really problematic is that *Kelly* signed out the order. 2/
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