[sentientmachine]

How far does a government agency have to go in breaking law before the military is deployed to put boots on the ground to reel in the agency back under the rule of law?

I'd like to think that if agencies started hiring their own armies and created their own version of law enforcement zones from other countries, and started killing people who opposed them, that someone would actually do something to stop that... right?

[protomyth]

It would be the FBI, as the military cannot be used for internal policing functions.

[prutschman]

The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act might apply in that case.

[sentientmachine]

But couldn't such an act be repealed as "enabling the terrorists" and be rendered inert?