By Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston July 25, 2009 Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo...
A decision to dispatch troops into the streets to make arrests has few precedents in American history, as both the Constitution and subsequent laws restrict the military from being used to conduct domestic raids and seize property.
It barely made news last week when Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne called for the testing of nonlethal weaponry on US citizens in crowd-control situations
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