NPS Director Discussed Plan To Close Monuments With White House

youtube ^ | 10/16/13 | goprapidresponse

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

from a questionable email : "Did anyone besides me wonder how they got all those signs printed and distributed far and wide,
including to all the national parks and cemeteries overseas only eight to ten hours after the government shut down?
Take a look at this from someone who wanted to remain anonymous.

I think they hired UPS and not USPS!

I have worked in the government on and off for 40 years.
During that time I became quite familiar with requisitions, bidding, awarding contracts etc.
It is a time consuming process with bean-counters and pencil-necked bureaucrats every step of the way.
The simplest request takes months not days or hours.

In less than 8 hours of the shutdown, miraculously, professionally printed 3X4 foot signs appeared all over the country in the tens of thousands
saying-“this [park, facility, etc. with custom logos] closed due to the government shutdown.
There has not been a government shutdown in 17 years.
These signs were designed, specifications were determined, signs were then requisitioned, bids were posted and vetted, government contracts were awarded.
The materials were then ordered and the signs manufactured then distributed through U.S. Mails or freight companies.

This shutdown was orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 months ago.
Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process.
There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.

[NTHockey]

During Watergate, they started with the small fry and got them to roll and/or provide information until they got to the top.
Any number of charges could be brought - abuse of power, conspiracy, denying American citizens their civil rights - that would have this POS squealing like a stuck pig.