[JacksonMS]

Bush sent NG into New York City under federal command for non-relief purposes due to national security. There is your answer.

[Spktyr]

Posse Commitatus does NOT apply when the event could be an act of war. The second plane striking the towers made it a potential act of war and posse commitatus no longer applied.

Hurricanes, until someone develops real weather control tech, are still not a potential act of war, but an "act of God'.

[cookcounty]

"Bush sent NG into New York City under federal command for non-relief purposes due to national security. There is your answer."

And did Governor Patak, ask Bush,? ...refuse Bush? or like Governor Blank-O, was he merely indifferent to the President? Unless it was one of the later two, the comparison doesn't fit.