Posted on 05/30/2007 5:52:59 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Emergency detention plan: 'This way to the camps!' Directive from Bush allows president extraordinary powers in national crisis
Posted: May 30, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Halliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.
As Corsi reported last week, President Bush recently signed a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive granting extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.
Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in January 2006 for one year, with four one-year options extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005.
KBR spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told Corsi the primary intent of the contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration crisis, but she confirmed the facilities could be employed in national emergencies, including natural disasters.
"The idea of the KBR contract is to support the Army Corp of Engineers in case we experienced a sudden mass immigration and we had to respond quickly," she said. "We would need immediate detention facilities in the form of temporary housing that would enable us to determine if the large numbers of illegal immigrants were political or economically motivated, or if they were criminals or terrorists."
Corsi reported last week the May 9 directive signed by Bush concentrates an unprecedented amount of emergency authority in the office of the president, specifying the chief executive would have the authority to direct "National Essential Functions" of all federal state, local, territorial and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations in the event of a national emergency.
The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy or government functions."
The KBR contingency contract appears to give ICE the ability to have detention facilities constructed under the president's direction in response to a national emergency as declared under the new directive.
KBR's Zuieback said she was not familiar with the directive, and at her request, Corsi e-mailed her the link to the White House's posting of the directive.
The White House has not responded to a request for comment on the story about the directive.
I used to think Joe Farah was a real journalist.
Detention camps? Hell, this administration can’t even get its sh** together when responding to questions over US attorney firings.
Mr. Farah, your order for one tin-foil hat (heavy duty, two-ply) has been processed. Please allow 3-5 days for delivery.
This should get the DUmmies in a real tizzy. Will make for some good DUFU.
The government should prepare for large scale emergencies. It makes sense they would prepare emergency housing in the case of a large terrorist attack. OTOH a large influx of immigrants?
What’s the problem? Don’t you like the subject?
What happens if a nuke goes off in LA or NY? What do you do with potentially hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of casualties? This would make Katrina look like a jolly picnic!
An attack on American soil is imminently possible. Those who don’t think so are simply stuck on stupid.
These are the same guys who would be bellyaching about how the government was unprepared for a disaster.
“KBR spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback”
ICE has an Acting Director of Public Affairs with that name also... http://www.ice.gov/about/leadership/opa_bio/jamie_zuieback.htm
Sloppy journalism?
Detain illegals or citizens fleeing a nuked city?
Halliburton + Executive Order + Mass Detention Camps = INSANITY.
Seesh, it seems we ALREADY have that situation.
“The idea of the KBR contract is to support the Army Corp of Engineers in case we experienced a sudden mass immigration and we had to respond quickly”
But I thought it was impractical to round up illegal immigrant and deport them. < /S >
If I were a Mexican citizen without a lot on the ball, and the US government announced Amnesty with a citizenship track for any Mexican citizen in the United States within the next couple of months, I would high-tail it for the border that very same day, if only to keep my options open.
Am I expected to believe that the same US government that has looked the other way at illegal immigration for decades will suddenly change course after this 12 million is granted amnesty?
Or as these immigrants “move up” in society, will we again make excuses that cheap labor must be permitted to immigrate into the US because no one else wants the work?
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