Thanks to Eugene Fidell for sending this along: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/dod.law.enforcement.1986.pdf Excerpt: "Military Departments and Defense Agencies may make equipment, base facilities, or research facilities available to Federal, State, or local civilian law enforcement officials for law enforcement purposes..." Previous Politech message: "Does military plane sniper-hunting violate Posse Comitatus?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04082.html Even though we don't usually talk much about this area of the law on Politech, I'm going to continue this thread for a bit. If this is the beginning of a trend, we may expect to see more military surveillance technology being turned to civilian law enforcement purposes. Perhaps that doesn't violate the spirit or letter of Posse Comitatus now, but in the future it might. (Also remember the NSA helping the FBI with encryption-decrypts...) -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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