Posted on 01/29/2019 7:12:37 PM PST by 11th_VA
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood confirmed to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) that Trump does not need Congress or a national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The exchange went as follows:
BROOKS: I want to direct your attention to 10 United States Code § 284 which authorizes President Trump to deploy the United States military to the southern border to build fences and to do a lot of other things, and for clarity, if you look it up in the dictionary the word fence includes the word barrier and the word barrier includes walls made of a wide variety of different materials.
So that having been said, it seems to me that 10 U.S. Code § 284 can be used by the President of the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall...
BROOKS: Does 10 U.S.C. § 284 as you understand it, require the declaration of a national emergency before it is implemented?
ROOD: No.
BROOKS: It does not?
ROOD: No.
BROOKS: Has President Trump, to your knowledge, ever used 10 U.S.C § 284 to direct the military to build the wall that is necessary for border security?
ROOD: No, not to my knowledge, Congressman.
BROOKS: If President Trump were to direct the Pentagon and the United States military pursuant to 10 U.S.C § 284 to build such barriers as are necessary to secure our southern border from drug trafficking and international crime cartels would the United States military obey that order?
ROOD: If we judge it to be a lawful order, yes sir. And I assume it would be.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Maybe the black robe regiment is needed again then.
Congress has been shirking their duties and ceding power to the Executive branch for decades. It would be karma for it to benefit our side for a change.
“the Ds and RINOs have been obstructionist. After all, the public has been told that obstruction is a crime.”
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They’ve given obstruction a glorious name, resistance.
“he should have used the military to do it on day one.”
Lots of reasons why mid-term is better.
The Military needed its catch up budget after years of Obama and sequestration, that it would not have gotten if the wall was rolled in.
Lots of Wall issues had to be worked, before dropping the big money - what is the best design, what is the best route, what is the priority for construction, how can we get around Leftist lawsuits, how can we best get right of way from all the private landowners, how can we work around binding treaty requirements, etc..
All of that is now solved. Beyond the planning and procedures, Government contracting itself has a significant lead time. The contracts are now standing, with a pool of pre-approved vendors ready to quickly bid out each segment - it is all tested, with three segments completed and fourteen more recently awarded.
This is just the point in the program where the planning and prep are complete, and everything is ready to ramp up - ready for the money bomb.
I’ll take door #3 for $100, Bob!
this is the big story in all FakeNewsMSM. intel agencies under-cutting the President:
30 Jan: Reuters: U.S. spy chiefs break with Trump on many threats to the U.S.
by Patricia Zengerle, Doina Chiacu
China and Russia pose the biggest risks to the United States, and are more aligned than they have been in decades as they target the 2020 presidential election and American institutions to expand their global reach, U.S. intelligence officials told senators on Tuesday.
The spy chiefs broke with President Donald Trump in their assessments of the threats posed by North Korea, Iran and Syria...
While China and Russia strengthen their alliance, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said, some American allies are pulling away from Washington in reaction to changing U.S. policies on security and trade.
The directors of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies flanked Coats at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. They described an array of economic, military and intelligence threats, from highly organized efforts by China to scattered disruptions by terrorists, hacktivists and transnational criminals...
The intelligence officials said they had protected the 2018 U.S. congressional elections from outside interference, but expected renewed and likely more sophisticated attacks on the 2020 presidential contest...
The intelligence chiefs’ assessments broke with some past assertions by Trump, including on the threat posed by Russia to U.S. elections and democratic institutions, the threat Islamic State poses in Syria, and North Korea’s commitment to denuclearize.
Coats said North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons. Trump has said the country no longer poses a threat.
Coats also said Islamic State would continue to pursue attacks from Syria, as well as Iraq, against regional and Western adversaries, including the United States. Trump, who plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, has said the militant group is defeated...
The intelligence officials also said Iran was not developing nuclear weapons in violation of the 2015 nuclear agreement...
Senators expressed deep concern about current threats...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security/us-spy-chiefs-break-with-trump-on-many-threats-to-the-us-idUSKCN1PN1U3
So why didn’t this get started in March of 2017?
I’m thinking some booms are a’comin
Wonder how many Americans are prepared, able and willing to turn those black robes into “red” robes?
Hopefully, “HE” booms - at the HOs of the CIA, NSA and FBI.
Target this is a judicial friendly area, maybe Texas, in a very specific, limited area. IfWhen that works, expand the area but stay away from the 9th circuit for now.
I bet Trump is awaiting the final 12’ X 30’ steel stat panels to be loaded on the trucks. It takes a little time to make 132,000 of them for the 300 miles of strategically placed barriers.
If it took a 20-man crew to build one mile of fencing in a day, 6,000 men could build that 300 miles in one day.
I think President Trump is buying time for the blitz wall build he has planned.
The steel panels are 30 foot high. Falls from that height cause severe injury that can be fatal.
That’s where the RATs will attack this legally - if Trump moves ahead, they will need hundreds of work orders.
Do you speak of the “boom” of civil war?
Would the construction of the Border Wall be one of those “red lines” Trump has been ordered not to cross by Left?
We do know the Left never backs down - they only double down.
What else can the Leftists do except start an insurrection, or attempt an assassination of the president when they cannot stop him any other way?
“I’ve seen the future, brother it’s murder” —Leonard Cohen
They’ve given obstruction a glorious name, resistance.
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Something we all need to emulate, should they attempt to jackboot us from a position of real authority.
However, to your point: I do believe POTUS is using their tactics against them.
Also: I cannot name one act of either tyranny or treason from our President. I’ve seen videos where progs are asked for the list of oppressive acts and every time, they cannot. The longer this goes on, the list on the other side and the number of players not only grows, more and more people become aware of it.
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