Lawyerly wonking of the legalisms of the PCA doesn’t diminish the fact that the guy said we’re integrating the operational capabilities of the military and civilian police, with an eye toward conducting joint ops.
That should not be happening in the USA. The USSA, maybe.
Like I said, just because they technically may not have yet crossed the line of violating the law I’m not any happier about it.
They clearly are planning to violate the law.
I believe in some circles that’s called “conspiracy”.
If you and I were to conspire to rob a bank, but didn’t actually rob a bank, we still face prosecution for conspiracy to rob a bank.