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Skeptics of the military mission at home question whether this signals a "creeping militarism" into our civilian culture and the erosion of the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old law that specifically bars the President from using the military for law enforcement in the United States...
...requests for Colombia's most notorious narcotics traffickers. ''Now we must convey that when you buy drugs,'' said Bush, ''you could also very well be subsidizing terrorist activities overseas.'' The armed forces have been engaged in the drug war since 1981, when Congress revised the 100-year-old posse comitatus act that prohibited the military from involvement in domestic law enforcement. With the reins loosened, the Department of Defense began providing the Drug Enforcement Administration and other organizations with radar surveillance, communications hardware and help in planning raids on traffickers. What, then, makes the new directive significant? ''The greatest impact...
...control of local law enforcement and the 13,268 National Guard troops from 29 states that fall under her command? State officials say Blanco considered it an odd move, given that federal control would not in itself mean any additional troops and would prohibit the guard under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 from acting as policemen. And she thought the request had a political motive. It would allow Washington to come in and claim credit for a relief operation that was finally beginning to show progress...
...group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, surrendered to state and federal officers who confiscated a large arms cache and 30 gal. of cyanide. The leader was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the Midwest, Identity ideas are frequently espoused by groups like Posse Comitatus, the violent tax-protest vigilantes...
...convicted assassin suspected of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing from prison. Together Newman and Patel spent a week beefing up her original petition. The new version cited a litany of constitutional violations, from the right to a speedy trial to the right to counsel to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits soldiers from engaging in police activity on U.S. soil. The revision also added a few new targets: Commander M.A. Marr--the officer in charge of the brig in South Carolina--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush...