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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