Franken named winner in MN

[Ddrak]

I can't even listen to Rush anymore... it just makes me want to hang myself.

I've heard he's better if you pop a few Oxycontins first.

Dd

[Klast Brell]

Apparently Fox News never heard of the Posse Comitatus Act.

[Kulaf]

Sure they have.....that was the one that kept the Feds out of LA during Hurricane Katrina......remember?

[Partha]

Sure it did.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... EMQHG1.DTL

Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state.

"No photos. No stories," said the man, wearing camouflage fatigues and a red beret.

On Saturday, after being challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.

But on Monday, in the Bywater district, that assurance wasn't being followed. The 82nd Airborne soldier told reporters the Army had a policy that requires media to be 300 meters -- more than three football fields in length -- away from the scene of body recoveries in New Orleans. If reporters wrote stories or took pictures of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain military operations.