[golfisnr1]

Federal troops cannot be used for security purposes in the US per a law called POSSE COMATATIS.
It is just another try to get President Bush in an impeachable offense.

[cripplecreek]

I'm really starting to wonder if thousands may have died for exactly that reason.

[Sweetjustusnow]

Bush's enemies would love that but they always sell his integrity to follow the law (not to mention his moral convictions) way to short and have underestimated the man time and time again.

This is the very reason that the Feds couldn't just go right in to NO with out the heads of the state itself first issuing the evacuation, etc. and then calling on the Feds. The officials of NO/LA have been corrupt for a very long time and their incompetency (if not the corruption) in the days coming will be clear to everyone. (Even those who have their heads up their butts and are hoping and praying the truth doesn't get told).

Tancredo of CO. should be getting mass amounts of supportive email and phone calls right now!

[SandRat]

Oh you mean this!

Posse Commitatus

The Posse Commitatus Act, while advisory and customary, is not equivalent to the Constitutional guarantee of border security to the several States. Further, the protectections offered by Posse Commitatus, supposedly precluding the use of military force within the US are at best, illusory. I point you to USC Title X, Section 333:

The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

So you see, Congress gave the President the police power with enormous latitude well over 100 years ago, Constitutional or not (IMO, not).