[IP] military to "provide defense support of civilian authorities including consequence management operations"
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: September 25, 2005 3:36:06 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: military to "provide defense support of civilian authorities
including consequence management operations"
This just in from a friend. Give special note of the second bulleted
item.
Geee ... and here I thought the conservatives and those on the
"Right" LIKED Posse Comitatus -- the 1878 Act prohibiting presidents
from using the military to conduct "consequence management
operations" normally limited to civil police agencies under LOCAL and
STATE control. (But then again, I thought the "Right" also opposed
run-away government pork/spending, too. Silly me!) --jim
Look what got created in 2002.
<http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=s.whoweare>http://
www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=s.whoweare
It's mission statement reads like a blank check.
The command's mission is homeland defense and civil support,
specifically:
Conduct operations to deter, prevent, and defeat threats and
aggression aimed at the United States, its territories, and
interests within the assigned area of responsibility; and
As directed by the President or Secretary of Defense, provide
defense support of civil authorities including consequence
management operations.
U.S. Northern Command plans, organizes, and executes homeland
defense and civil support missions, but has few permanently
assigned forces. The command will be assigned forces whenever
necessary to execute missions as ordered by the President.
Approximately 1,200 civil service employees and uniformed personnel
representing all service branches provide this essential unity of
command from U.S. Northern Command's headquarters at Peterson Air
Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo.
I wondered why the President was riding out Rita there....
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