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To: Ilaine who wrote (132264)8/13/2005 7:11:40 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793782
 
You're the one that went off on a Posse Comitatus kick in response to the article, not me. No one is calling for imposition of martial law, or whatever it is you've set up as a straw man.

In response to a catestrophic terrorist attack on the US, the President has Article 2 power, bolstered by Congressional Act, to take whatever measures necessary to respond to the national emergency. That's risky, but that's the law - that's the War Powers, that's the President's Article 2 powers. If you doubt the extent of that power in wartime, you need only look at Lincoln's exertion of Presidential power during the Civil War. Or Roosevelt's for that matter.

The plans drawn up by the military are really fairly pedestrian compared to what the President could authorize in such a situation.

Derek
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