Reply #48: Chertoff wanting to circumvent Posse Comitatus for some time now: [View All]

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Posted by nonny on another thread about Chertoff:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4770157#4775691

In other news on August 9, Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff said that if the military
were deployed inside the United States in response to
a terrorist attack, his department, not the Pentagon,
would exercise overall control, reports the Los
Angeles Times.

“The Department of Homeland Security has the
responsibility under the President’s directives to
coordinate the entirety of the response to a terrorist
act here in the United States. And, responding to news
reports, the Pentagon has drawn up plans for military
action… It ranges from scenarios of crowd control to
dealing with radiological or biological attacks.” So what
does civilian control of the Pentagon mean?

Chertoff, whose name means ‘of the devil’ in
Russian, is attempting to further circumvent Posse
Comitatus. He is trying to gain control of law
enforcement to ensure that the Department of Homeland
Security, which will include the Office of Internal
Security, the Office of Political Security, and other
agencies to be created after Posse Comitatus is
overturned, will have a civilian mechanism to control
a militarized law enforcement because they don’t want
the military to control it.

This is what’s going to happen when Posse
Comitatus is overturned. They still want civilian
control, and you notice where that control lies.
Control lies in these skeleton organizations
that would become fully effective upon the overturning
of Posse Comitatus. The reason this is being done is
because they don’t trust the military. They want to have the
ability to politicize law enforcement, to use a
post-Posse Comitatus, militarized, domestic law
enforcement for political purposes.

This, in essence, will be a federal militarized
police, and they want the ability to use it for
political purposes. That’s why they want the control
of a militarized police to remain, not simply in
civilian hands, but to be in the hands of former
Bushonian cabalists, like Porter Goss, current head of
the CIA and John Negroponte, head of the new National
Intelligence Directorate. These are people who have
run illegal covert operations during Bushonian regimes
in the past, who acted to cover up Bushonian
involvement, and who also selected and went after
those who knew too much.

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