Posted on 10/26/2024 6:57:04 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
Just as former president Donald Trump told Fox News last week that he wanted to use the U.S. military to “handle” what he called the “enemy from within” on Election Day, an obscure military policy was beginning to make the rounds on social media platforms favored by the far right.
The focus? Department of Defense Directive 5240.01.
The 22-page document governs military intelligence activities and is among more than a thousand different policies that outline Defense Department procedures.
The Pentagon updated it at the end of September. Although military policies are routinely updated and reissued, the timing of this one—just six weeks before the election and the same day Hurricane Helene slammed into the Southeast—struck right-wing misinformation merchants as suspicious.
They latched onto a new reference in the updated directive—“lethal force”—and soon were falsely claiming that the change means Kamala Harris had authorized the military to kill civilians if there is unrest after the election.
That’s flat-out not true, the Pentagon and experts on military policy told The War Horse.
“The provisions in [the directive] are not new, and do not authorize the Secretary of Defense to use lethal force against U.S. citizens, contrary to rumors and rhetoric circulating on social media,” Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, said Wednesday night.
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Sorry I misunderstood that. I thought you were talking about this organization in the OP. It is a nonprofit. But their financial statements do not add up right.
Sometimes brevity doesn't lend well to understanding. My fault, not yours. My apologies.
Thanks for the explanation- our liberty is an illusion it seems- in every area of our lives.
Unfortunately it is all an illusion as you say. Like our “representatives” touting about bills they know they can never get passed. It is all smoke and mirrors just to appease us and keep us off their backs while they throw us under the bus.
It authorizes lethal force by stating lethal force is not prohibited.
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