Story highlights The US military is seeking to increase intelligence-gathering raids in Yemen

Any adjustment does not mean that the President would not be briefed

Washington (CNN) Military commanders are discussing speeding up the authorization of counterterrorism missions by allowing the Pentagon or even field commanders to approve some of them rather than the White House, US defense officials told CNN.

As CNN first reported Tuesday, the military is seeking to increase US intelligence-gathering raids in Yemen similar to one undertaken in the first week of the Trump presidency. It's not yet clear if this adjustment in the approval process could be used for those operations.

Military analysts warned, though, that pushing decision-making authority below the President for high-risk missions could create problems in oversight for sensitive missions and questions of presidential responsibility should something go wrong.

"The risk in greenlighting missions at a lower level than the President is one where the President assumes all the responsibility if something goes wrong, and he would really find it difficult to do that if in fact he was not part of the approval process," retired Col. Cedric Leighton said.

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The White House, however, suggested that the degree of change might not be that sizeable.

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