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Conservative Influencers Misrepresent Routine Revision to Defense Department Policy

The Department of Defense published an updated policy on intelligence gathering on Sept. 27. The update didn’t add any new rules or expand military authority. It just described some existing policy from other, related protocols about the use of force. But some conservative influencers have misrepresented the revised policy, claiming that it “NOW includes the legal use of lethal force against civilians by the military,” or that the “US military was just ‘...