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Pentagon to detail military to bolster security

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posted on Dec, 1 2008 @ 01:25 AM
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Pentagon to detail military to bolster security


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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 to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and 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.
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posted on Dec, 1 2008 @ 01:25 AM
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The thing that gets me is that this is breaking a 130-year old federal law, it's absolutely amazing what our government gets away with. I don't like the idea of this, it's just the thing they need to set martial law in motion. I know they are using the excuse of terrorism to do this. Is it just me or does this make anyone else nervous?

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