Ridge: Consider Using Military To Enforce Law Domestically

WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday that the threat of 
terrorism may force government planners
to consider using the military for domestic law enforcement, now largely prohibited by 
federal law.
President Bush has called on Congress to thoroughly review the law banning the Army, 
Navy, Air Force and Marines from
participating in arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other police activity on 
U.S. soil. The Coast Guard and
National Guard troops under control of state governors are excluded from the 
Reconstruction-era law, known as the
``Posse Comitatus Act.''

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