Last week, a newly discovered report left Florida struggling to explain how a year passed before anyone noticed it was issuing concealed carry permits without a federal background check, while Immigration and Customs Enforcement emails suggest that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have misrepresented the expected yield of recent raids in California.

Huge events like the Republican National Convention are designated by the Department of Defense as “National Special Security Events” - rare non-disaster situations where U.S. military personnel can be deployed domestically.