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Monday, January 24, 2005

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 Bush violated Posse Comitatus during inaugural

In what might amount to a violation of Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts military forces from performing domestic law enforcement duties, a group of super-secret commandos stood ready to protect Bush during the inauguration.

The NYT reports that
As part of the extraordinary army of 13,000 troops, police officers and federal agents marshaled to secure the inauguration, these elite forces were poised to act under a 1997 program that was updated and enhanced after the Sept. 11 attacks, but nonetheless departs from how the military has historically been used on American soil....

The precise number of these Special Operations forces in Washington this week is highly classified, but military officials say the number is very small. The special-missions units belong to the Joint Special Operations Command, a secretive command based at Fort Bragg, N.C., whose elements include the Army unit Delta Force....

[T]he contingency plan, called JCS Conplan 0300-97, calls for "special-mission units in extra-legal missions to combat terrorism in the United States" based on top-secret orders that are managed by the military's Joint Staff and coordinated with the military's Special Operations Command and Northern Command, which is the lead military headquarters for domestic defense.

1 Comments:

Blogger Dave S. said...

Keep digging, I'm sure you'll get 'em somehow.

4:40 PM  

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