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From: stevew@wyse.wyse.com (Steve Wilson xttemp dept303)
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Subject: Re: Defense cuts
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Date: 22 Jan 90 06:03:10 GMT
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From: stevew@wyse.wyse.com (Steve Wilson xttemp dept303)

In article <13221@cbnews.ATT.COM> ae219dp%prism@gatech.edu (Devon Prichard) writes:
>From: ae219dp%prism@gatech.edu (Devon Prichard)
> stuff deleted...
>using military aircraft for detection of drug runners.
>
>Note that there is federal law preventing use of the regular
>military in execution of civil law (I believe it is referred
>to as the Posse Comitatus Act. any lawyers out there ??)

>From what I understand this wasn't law, but a long standing(like
100 year) Executive order. The Bush administration revised this
order, and the one dealing with assasination of political figures
just before the invasion of Panama.  This opened the way for the
invasion being legal under US codes.


Steve Wilson