Last week WaPo reported that the military has drafted its first-ever war plans for detering or responding to terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. The most publicized of these plans have the military in a supporting role, but some of the plans -- which remain secret -- call for the military to take charge of civilian operations.
According to Adm. Timothy J. Keating, the head of NORTHCOM (the military command responsible for homeland security operations), such situations would probably be temporary, with lead responsibility passing back to civilian authorities.
PROBABLY??!?
That one word just jUMPed off the page at me.
And NORTHCOM's lawyers say that the legal constraints of the Posse Comitatus Act would not apply.
Excerpts from the WaPo article below the fold...
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