U.S. Military Authorized to Use Lethal Force on American Soil

Ron Paul warns that the US military was just “authorized to kill Americans on US soil … I think it’s very, very dangerous.”

Daniel McAdams: “It’s not a law, it’s a DoD Directive. So, this is the administrative state, where they take over, they don’t pass laws.

It’s a DoD Directive that was re-issued September 27, 2024. It governs the Department of Defense intelligence activities, and now includes provisions authorizing lethal force in certain circumstances, and it supplants the 2016 version which did not mention that.”

The DoD Directive is 5240.01, for those who want to read it themselves.