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WaPo: Military Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
Corrente — 11:50PM EST. Not that I'm paranoid, but when I click on the WaPo front page link to this story: Military Troops to Bolster Domestic Security after reading this teaser: Pentagon plans to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the U.S. by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to a domestic catastrophe. Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson I get this: Read more…

Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... 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. But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Isn't this what the National Guard is for?
Brilliant at Breakfast — Funny how the black helicopter crowd (which is sure to crawl back out from the rocks under which they've been hiding during the entire time George W. Bush has eviscerated the Constitution), never mind the "less government" pseudo-libertarian crowd, is utterly silent about this: ...

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News — ... - Jed Lewison, The Jed Report [image] Michael Steele for RNC Chair - Matt Stoller, Open Left [image] It's Honeymoon Time - Paul Mirengoff, Power Line [image] The Liberationator - Attaturk, Firedoglake [image] In Which I Eat My Hat - Kevin Drum [image] The Governor Is Missing - Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish OTHER NEWS SOURCES: A Handpicked Team for a Shift in Foreign Policy - NY Times Pentagon to Detail Troops for Domestic Security - Washington Post Decisions Made on Two Other ...

What's A Posse Commitatus?
Newshoggers.com — ... Can anyone say "mission creep"? The military always can, which is why a new initiative to give the Pentagon an ability to surge a combat-ready force for domestic security is so worrying. ...

The end of Posse Comitatus: U.S. troops to be deployed at home
The BRAD BLOG — ... Funny how the black helicopter crowd (which is sure to crawl back out from the rocks under which they've been hiding during the entire time George W. Bush has eviscerated the Constitution), never mind the "less government" pseudo-libertarian crowd, is utterly silent about this: ...

What's A Posse Comitatus?
Crooks and Liars — ... Can anyone say "mission creep"? The military always can, which is why a new initiative to give the Pentagon an ability to surge a combat-ready force for domestic security is so worrying. ...