Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo (AP)

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AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.




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Pretty much a non story since it didn't happen, out of date now although this dumb professor at the end of the story states a complete falsehood.
"Scott L. Silliman, a Duke University law professor specializing in national security law, told the Times that a U.S. president had not deployed the active-duty military on domestic soil in a law enforcement capacity, without specific statutory authority, since the Civil War."

He chooses to ignore Hoover's use of Federal troops against veterans in the 1930's or FDR's executive order interning US citizens of Japanese decent during WWII.

Just another biased misinformation article.
 
Wow... that's actually true isn't it Chupike?
And I'm assuming the troops used in the 1930's and the Japanese-Americans were active duty soldiers?
 
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