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DoD Directive 5240.01

WVU82
@CynicalPublius

DEBUNKING INCOMING

OK folks, realize that what I am about to say is going to earn me massive abuse and claims that I am a fed, and I know I'm going against RFK Jr. here, but--after the docnetyoutube hoax--I cannot in good conscience let well-meaning MAGAs fall for another hoax.
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-I want to talk about DoD Directive 5240.01, "DoD Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities and Defense Intelligence Component Assistance to Law Enforcement Agencies and Other Civil Authorities.”

DoD Directive 5240.01 does not authorize the U.S. military to kill civilians on U.S. soil.

I REPEAT: DoD Directive 5240.01 DOES NOT AUTHORIZE the U.S. military to kill civilians on U.S. soil.

What that DoDD DOES say lies in the title of the document. The title is talking about DoD INTELLIGENCE assets being used in support of civil authorities. "INTELLIGENCE ASSETS," i.e., human analysts in a cubicle, satellite imagery, signals intelligence, written products, surveillance drones, etc.

JUST INTELLIGENCE ASSETS. Assets that are non-lethal in their own right.

Not infantry. Not tanks. Not rifles. Not F-15s. Not artillery. Not door-kickers. None of that.

OK, now realizing what the subject matter of this DoDD is, let’s look at the section that has everybody in a twist:

"Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.”

That use of the word “lethal” has people scared. But understand more context—this is a sub-paragraph of a bigger paragraph that explicitly lists things that the SecDef must approve in order for it to happen. That’s it. That’s all this paragraph is referring to. Also understand this—the “lethality” is lethality done by CIVIL authorities, and NOT U.S. military troops.

So let me tell you what this is saying in much simpler terms:

When civil authorities (i.e., police and other LE) are engaged in operations where Americans might die, and those civil authorities request the help of military intelligence assets (those NON-LETHAL assets I listed above), approval authority for such request must come directly from the SecDef.

THAT IS ALL IT SAYS. THAT’S IT. NOTHING MORE.

I’m sorry that RFK Jr. got it wrong, like so many others, but the truth must win out. Go read the whole DoDD yourself if you don’t believe me.

NOW. BEFORE YOU START GOING OFF ON ME:
-I don’t agree with this DoDD as written.
-I don’t think it’s moral or correct.
-I think it violates Posse Comitatus.
-I don’t think it’s an appropriate role for military intelligence assets.

But if we want to complain about it, we have to complain abut what it ACTUALLY SAYS and not complain about some non-existent hoax that invalidates our legitimate concerns.

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