Rep. Ike Skelton (MO), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, announced today he met this morning with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and received assurances that the Pentagon has no plans to propose changes to the Posse Comitatus Act. A few weeks earlier, Skelton sent a letter to President Bush asking him to clarify statements he made on Sept. 15 about using the military in responding to domestic disasters like Hurricane Katrina. It appeared as if Bush was...
