Guard's new mission Deployment raises legal and logistical questions By Michael Doyle -- Bee Washington Bureau Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, May 16, 2006 http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/nation/story/14255880p-15071051c.html
<...> "Members of the National Guard aren't covered by the Posse Comitatus Act while acting under state control, the Congressional Research Service noted in a report last year. By reimbursing border states for their National Guard expenses, but leaving the troops under state control, the 19th-century law wouldn't apply." <...> Considering that the Military Budget Committee meets today, with Donald Rumsfeld scheduled to testify... if the demoncrats can block or otherwise control the re-funding of the states for National Guard at the Mexican border, it could cause the Bush administration to have violated the law... "Good intentions" or not. What if the states refuse the reimbursement? One CAN dream... Leigh http://leighm.net/
