FC: Text of 1986 Defense Department directive on assisting police

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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




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