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Security and safety questions follow Trump’s call to make planned monument a ‘top grade military complex’

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WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green said Trump's post has the hallmarks of an idea and little more, because the U.S. military and intelligence agencies would not want such a use to be public knowledge.

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