Fwd: News Alert: Bush Administration Debated Using Military in Terrorism Arrests

[rich]

chilling

the case in Buffalo was a joke


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From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Subject: News Alert: Bush Administration Debated Using Military in
Terrorism Arrests
To: richard.romeo at gmail.com


Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, July 24, 2009 -- 9:35 PM ET
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Bush Administration Debated Using Military in Terrorism Arrests

Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the
Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of
Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with
Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.

Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including
Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the
power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the
terrorism suspects, who came to be known as the Lackawanna
Six, and declare them enemy combatants. Mr. Bush ultimately
decided against the proposal to use military force.

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