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MORRISTOWN, N.J. — When officials in Summit invoked the USA Patriot Act to justify kicking homeless people out of its train station in June, the move was ridiculed in many quarters. Even the U.S. Justice Department said the city had no business applying the anti-terrorism law to justify its treatment of the homeless.

But now that the federal government has issued a warning in the aftermath of the London bombings that terrorists may pose as homeless people to study buildings and mass-transit stations while plotting future attacks, no one is laughing anymore.