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outsidethebeltway.com - 12/1/2008
Posse Comitatus? Its a Stupid Law Anyways
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The Posse Comitatus Law of 1878 is about to get shoved into the dustbin of history. The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according ...
prairieweather.typepad.com - 12/1/2008
Shoving posse comitatus aside
— prairieweather.typepad.com — The federal government did such a great job during Katrina, Rita, and Ike, didn't it! So great... that we should shoulder posse comitatus out of the way and apply the Pentagon's management to domestic crises. So here we go:"Last Monday,... (more) Shoving posse comitatus aside

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