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 JANET RENO READIES REGIONAL FORCES IN AMERICA
 
 Regional, multi-jurisdictional task forces, under federal control, are
 being established throughout the country.
 
 Exclusive to The Spotlight
 by Mike Blair
 
     The U.S. Justice Department is in the process of establishing
 Rural Crime and Drug Task Forces within each federal judicial district
 of the nation, as provided for in the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill, which
 has been signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
     Under the new law, Attorney General Janet Reno has the authority
 to establish the task forces in each judicial district and to deputize
 local law enforcement officers as federal marshals. 
     The SPOTLIGHT has learned that various federal agencies, which
 were designated by the law to be part of the task forces, are in the
 process of being trained and organized for their new duties.
     As an example, The SPOTLIGHT has learned that officers of the U.S.
 Park Service are to begin receiving training in the use of the
 military M-16 assault rifle, which they then will be required to carry
 in their vehicles.
     According to SPOTLIGHT sources the training is to be undertaken at
 Fort Gordon, Georgia.
 
 Semi-Automatics
 
     Sources said the rifles to be provided to the Park Service will
 have their selective fire mechanisms removed, which will make them
 capable of firing only semi-automatically. 
     However, this semi-automatic version of the M-16 is one of the so-
 called "assault rifles" that was banned from civilian sale and
 ownership in a provision of the crime bill.
     In addition, The SPOTLIGHT has also learned that members of the
 enforcement division of the U.S. Forest Service are no longer under
 the jurisdiction of the supervisory personnel of the districts they
 serve.
     Now they receive their orders directly from the Washington or
 regional offices of the service.
     Further, The SPOTLIGHT has received a copy of a Forest Service
 requisition submitted to a local ammunition supplier in Montana for
 300 boxes of Federal Premium Hydra-Shok .45 caliber pistol ammunition
 for the rangers' sidearms.
     This ammunition features a cartridge with a bullet designed for
 its expanding, destructive power that has been highly criticized by
 anti-gun forces.
     The requisition, which was for the approximately 30 Forest Service
 officers who serve the Kootenai National Forest at Libby Montana, also
 includes 240 boxes of regular Winchester ball or jacketed .45 caliber
 ammunition and 80 boxes of Federal 12 gauge shotgun 00 buckshot
 cartridges.
     Under the crime bill, the membership of task forces will include
 state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as the Drug
 Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Naturalization Service,
 Customs Service, United States Marshals Service, U.S. Park Police,
 U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management "and other Federal law
 enforcement agencies as the Attorney General may direct."
     The law gives the task forces, including the federal officers,
 jurisdiction to act on non-federal land.
     The task forces, according to the new law, will be financed
 largely through "Assets seized as a result of *investigations*
 [SPOTLIGHT emphasis] initiated by a Rural Drug Enforcement Task Force
 . . . "
     In other words, the subject of an investigation will be in danger
 of having his assets confiscated and liquidated by a task force,
 regardless of the fact that he has not only not been convicted of any
 crime but has not even been arrested or charged.
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