Pentagon to detail military to bolster security
Plan would dedicate 20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. ...
By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson - Wash Post via MSNBC - Nov. 30, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Posse Comitatus Act to be abolished in fact
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