Warner's actually using this to change the law to pave the statutes
for martial law.. apparently nature is more powerful than it was
when the constitution was being ratified.
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> I searched Posse Comitatus on Yahoo news and this came up second,
> and From The Wilderness came up third. Warner seems interested in
> this where the newspapers aren't.. the GOP runs primary challenges
> against him, the only incumbant they do this to.
>
> Another case of the pols and the press being on different
wavelength
> in here in Jersey where Gov. Codey passed a budget for audited
> ballots as an attachment to moving up the state presidential
> primary. The NJN news (state funded) completely ignored the audit
> aspect, which made it impossible for Joe 6 pack to figure out why
> moving up the primary would cost so much.
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> Senator urges Pentagon to review disaster role By Andrea Shalal-Esa
> Wed Sep 14, 8:24 PM ET
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> The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday urged
> the Pentagon to review laws that limit the use of U.S. troops to
> restore order after a disasters like Hurricane Katrina or a terror
> attack.
>
> "The only entity in the United States that has the personnel, the
> equipment, the training and the logistical capacity to lend
support
> to the National Guard and other state entities in an emergency of
> this scale is the Department of Defense," Virginia Republican Sen.
> John Warner (news, bio, voting record) told Defense Secretary
Donald
> Rumsfeld in a letter released by his office.
>
> He said the hurricane was followed by looting and disorder, partly
> because state and local authorities were unable to cope with the
> crisis, which he described as the "greatest natural disaster to
hit
> the United States in a century."
>
> President George W. Bush has come under fierce criticism for the
> slow pace of federal intervention to help save people trapped by
the
> flooding in New Orleans.
>
> Warner, a former Navy secretary who has repeatedly raised this
issue
> since the September 11, 2001 attacks, said he did not fault local
> and state officials because they were confronting a nearly
> unprecedented crisis.
>
> But he said the military clearly had a role to play.
>
> He urged Rumsfeld to conduct a thorough review of the legal
> framework governing a president's use of active duty U.S. troops
to
> restore public order in the event of a disaster like Katrina,
other
> public health emergencies, terrorist incidents and other
situations.
>
> He said Congress would conduct its own reviews, and he would
> recommend at least changing some of the wording of current
statutes,
> which include terms like "insurrection."
>
> "The president should not have to worry about misperceptions by
the
> public based on outdated wording that does not accurately describe
> what the armed forces may be doing in a particular emergency,"
> Warner said.
>
> Warner named the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits troops
> from doing domestic law enforcement in most cases, as well as laws
> that require the federal government to pay for National Guard
> deployments, even while they remain under the command and control
of
> the states.
>
> Gen. Peter Pace, designated as the next chairman of the military's
> Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week also called for the laws to be
> examined to ensure the military could be engaged as effectively as
> possible.
>
> Some believe rigid interpretations of the 1878 law, enacted during
> the post-Civil War reconstruction period, may have slowed down
> deployment of active-duty troops after the storm. Others argue
there
> are exceptions to the law, and it can be waived by the president.
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