...Anyone wonder why this has not been major news since it happened?
Having read further through the thread than I had when I posted, I found much of what I wanted to know, reported on in later posts. But yes. such an obvious apparent violation of the Act, seems like it should have garnered much more national coverage than it has so far. Thinking on the matter, I could see how a police cheif might have been ignorant of the Posse Comitatus Act, but I find it harder to fathom that a military command officer, would be unaware of it. I am willing to acceppt that this was an unintentional violation, based on exigent circumstances and under-educated persons of authority, but it should be used as a national teaching point.