re: #328 lawhawk

Special forces have been in Niger for training missions and to combat extremists groups in the area since 2012, and we’ve had a military presence in the region since the Bush administration. The president isn’t going to approve every single outing that a group of soldiers engages in - we’d never get anything done.

I hate giving Trump the benefit of the doubt here, but it’s entirely reasonable to assume that local command had the authority to authorize the mission. This looks like an intelligence failure.