Salon Radio: ACLU on the U.S. Army's domestic deployment - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Salon Radio: ACLU on the U.S. Army's domestic deployment - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "Last month, The Army Times reported that for 'the first time an active [U.S. Army] unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.' The brigade, the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, has spent most of the last four years fighting a war in Iraq, and will now be assigned on a permanent basis to engage in numerous domestic functions -- including, as the article put it, 'to help with civil unrest and crowd control.'

In response to the announced deployment, I wrote about the long-standing legal prohibitions against the use of the U.S. military for law enforcement purposes inside the U.S., and asked: 'Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the 'Homeland?'"