Posted on 05/26/2022 7:57:29 PM PDT by bitt
Newly disclosed documents obtained by the New York Times reveal secret US plans for ‘apocalyptic’ scenarios when a president may activate wartime powers.
The documents – known as presidential emergency action documents – were provided to the New York Times by the Brennan Center for Justice after it gathered the materials from the Bush presidential library under the Freedom of Information Act.
Only 500 pages were disclosed to the Brennan Center for Justice – 6,000 classified pages were withheld.
“The newly disclosed documents show that there were 48 of the directives when the Bush administration took office; by 2008, that number had grown to 56. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office was involved in reviewing and “clearing” the orders. The documents do not indicate any consultation with Congress.” The Times reported.
“Several of the files, provided to The New York Times by the Brennan Center for Justice, show that the Bush-era effort partly focused on a law that permits the president to take over or shut down communications networks in wartime. That suggests the government may have developed or revised such an order in light of the explosive growth in the 1990s of the consumer internet.” The Times reported.
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Let me guess. The power mad politicians who would be wielding these draconian powers would be the very same politicians who “declare” the “emergency.”
Just the kind of thing Barak Obama’s licking his chops over.
If course they would, and to them, a national emergency, is when a parent protests a democrat school board.
So, like when there’s a some drizzle on a cold day?
We know that the SOP for government agents is to immediately march into a kill zone, stand around and await further orders.
Activate Wartime Powers for National Security.
They mean like cutting off the oil supply?.
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