Government
Oct. 4, 2007
Congress Wary of Domestic Policing Plan
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's hopes of using military satellites for domestic law enforcement have hit an unlikely obstacle: a 19th century law passed in the wake of the Civil War.
By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's hopes of using military satellites for domestic law enforcement has hit an unlikely obstacle: a 19th century law passed in the wake of the Civil War.
The statute in question is the Posse Comitatus Act that Congress passed in 1878 in reaction to concerns from former Confederate states that Union for...
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's hopes of using military satellites for domestic law enforcement has hit an unlikely obstacle: a 19th century law passed in the wake of the Civil War.
The statute in question is the Posse Comitatus Act that Congress passed in 1878 in reaction to concerns from former Confederate states that Union for...
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