Re: [iwar] news - "Homeland Defense"


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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:50:19 -0800
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>There's also the issue of "posse comitatus," and the military's ability,
>willingness, or appropriateness in responding to acts of war or terror
>visited on "the homeland."  The alternatives are to amend the Constitution
>to permit the military more license to work domestically, or establish a
>new agency (or new powers and capabilities to domestically-operating
>agencies like FEMA and the FBI).  Personally, I'd prefer to keep the
>military in the roles it's currently serving, which diminishes the
>temptation to have it pulled into domestic police situations.  Which isn't
>to say, though, that the Air Force or Army, with sizable CONUS "tails,"
>won't have to do a lot to secure themselves against attacks within CONUS.

Put that way, I agree there should remain a strict boundary between defense
from "threats foreign" and from "threats domestic", in terms of the agencies
charged with those respective responsibilities.

Good Call!

But where domestic agencies such as FBI and FEMA appear "too restricted"
in their ability to act in this emerging cyber-environment, one must ask
whether the reasons for such restrictions have a sound constitutional basis,
as I suspect they sometimes do.

As the constitution serves mainly to limit the behaviors of government
(more so than individuals,) should we exercise additional caution that
the "NHSA" not tacitly "deputize" private groups to coordinate activities
that the government itself is precluded to undertake?

Seems akin to "friendly oversight" of private investigator's casework, and
bounty hunter's activities, shady as they may often be.  Since they're not
on the (gov) payroll, no foul?

( Am I simply paranoid? :)

___tony___



Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900


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