Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security

Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post
Monday, Dec 01, 2008

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department’s role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.

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But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response — a nearly sevenfold increase in five years — “would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable,” Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted “a fundamental change in military culture,” he said.

The Pentagon’s plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces to be ready for emergency response by September 2011. The first 4,700-person unit, built around an active-duty combat brigade based at Fort Stewart, Ga., was available as of Oct. 1, said Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the U.S. Northern Command.

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5 Responses to “Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security”

rich Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 6:28 am
the thing i feared the most is come upon us !!!!!!!! we’re from the government, we’re here to protect you ????????????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7vb1ZtmMIE

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RealityBase Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Have you tried to fight one of these BS tickets lately? It’s a kangaroo court and regardless of the evidence you present the judge will just side with the cop. Not unless you pony up for an attorney you’re just pissing up a rope.
Kshatriya Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
Why do we exist? http://patriotscave.blogspot.com/
YoSon Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
The Real News: US prepares for ‘continuity of government’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xq0a2paXMA
www.templibeholder.blogspot.com Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
My plan is not to worry.

The Einsteins that will put this fascist thing into place are people too. If you get heavy handed and anti-freedom (Like in a war), things get very dramatic ,and most boring economic oriented people don’t really like drama unless it is on television. But people do learn important lessons and do important things when there is conflict and drama around. Some people decide they are freedom fighters and fight the “oppressors”.
Whereas I, take off all my clothes,paint myself red and scream-in-tongues soothing & healing anecdotes learned from my psychic ether corresponances with Charles Manson.

You don’t have to be a genius to figure out who’s gonna get us out of this mess. But im not a proud man, really.