Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Trump announced that he is ready to deploy the military to enforce order inside the United States
As tear gas wafted through the air in Lafayette Park across from the White House, Trump announced from the Rose Garden that if state or city leaders refuse"to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents," he will invoke the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that allows a president to deploy the US military to suppress civil disorder.But some Pentagon officials are deeply wary, several defense officials tell CNN.
'The bottom of my list'Carden described the mission of reinforcing local authority by saying that,"of all the things I've been asked in do in the last 34 plus years in uniform, this is on the bottom of my list." He acknowledged that the circumstances"called for it," and said that he believes the National Guard presence"had a significant deter and calming effect.
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