Posse comitatus, like Geneva conventions, is quaint
Or so it seems, as Bush prepares [link to http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060515/ts_nm/usa_immigration_dc_4 no longer works] to send thousands of National Guard troops to patrol our border with Mexico.
I thought posse comitatus explicitly allowed for the military to assist law enforcement by “providing intelligence, providing support, logistics support and training and these sorts of things.” No?
That is my understanding as well. I am extremely pessimistic lately about respect for such limitations being shown in various quarters. We will see, I suppose.
I’m waiting for the sequence of posts explaining how it’s all being done to protect us against terrorists, and anyway, Bill Clinton did the same thing.
Not just “quaint”. An Army Reserve major wrote that Posse Comitatus is a myth [http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/Trebilcock.htm].