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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:42 pm Post Subject: Bush seeks change to Posse Comitatus Act
Hmmm.... this is a worry
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WASHINGTON: President George W Bush has asked Congress to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic...
But Congress needs to take a look at circumstances that may need to vest the capacity of the president to move beyond that debate. And one such catastrophe or one such challenge could be an avian flu outbreak," Bush said.
The active duty military is currently forbidden from undertaking law enforcement duties by the federal Posse Comitatus Act.
That law, passed in 1878 after the U.S. Civil War, does not prohibit National Guard troops under state control from doing police work. But, unless the law is changed, it would keep them from doing so if they were activated by Washington under federal control.
While the law allows the president to order the military to take control and do police work in an extreme emergency, the White House has been traditionally reluctant to usurp state powers.
