Arlington National Cemetery

The main government response is that we do have authority.

And what they point to is that in 1913, Congress authorized something called the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission to build Memorial Bridge, which is the bridge that goes from the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac toward Arlington Cemetery.

And the site of the arch

is right at the head of the bridge on what looks like the Virginia side, but is actually still the District of Columbia.

In fact, the standing hurdle might be the biggest.

The plaintiffs here are – one of them is an architectural historian, and you can sort of kiss that guy goodbye because – because of the ballroom case.

The other three are Vietnam vets, or certainly vets anyway, who regularly visit Arlington Cemetery to visit their fallen comrades.

And they have some pretty moving declarations about what it would mean to them to have this sort of vanity project, have to go past this sort of vanity project every year.

And also Dunn should have tried to emulate Kissinger's famous German accent.

Jack wakes up the next morning in Arlington Cemetery with bullet holes dotting his shirt, and he finds a gun shop that can make him some silver bullets on short notice for him to load a revolver with.

Which is, um, implausible to say the least, because this is a form of specialty smithing that requires a lot of trial and error, and I don't think anybody practices it on a regular basis, even though it is technically feasible, but sure, we'll go with it.

Once he's done that, he takes a map and shows the Attorney General and Commander Salmon that the sites of the murders form four points of a five-pointed star, with the fifth directly over his apartment, and this combined with the shoes and the bullet holes in his shirt finally convince them he's telling the truth.

A Philadelphia man has been charged for making gruesome threats against a person recruiting poll watchers.

And the Army has been ordered to release its report of the Trump incident at Arlington National Cemetery.

I'm Allison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hot notes.

All right.

First up, from the Military Times, a federal judge has ordered Army officials to release their records by the end of this week regarding President Donald Trump's controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery this past summer.

Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia—that's a Clinton appointee—on Tuesday— granted the release request as part of a lawsuit filed by American Oversight, a nonpartisan nonprofit group dedicated to getting the government to release records.