This night and fog release style does not build trust with 0bama administration. The work "peacetime" is used many times in the 1994 EO document of same name, too.
IMHO, it reads as wordsmithing the previous Executive Order with the modern federal department names/responsibilites.
Pray for our republic,
OLA
” IMHO, it reads as wordsmithing the previous Executive Order with the modern federal department names/responsibilites. “
There’s a not-so-minor difference between Clinton’s order of 1994 and this EO of March 16, 2012 —
This is a different world, and a different America, than existed in 1994....
In the interim - since 9/11/2001, and especially in the last two years - there has been a LOT of pretty draconian legislation passed, giving the Administration (whatever Administration happens to occupy the WH) all kinds of heretofore unprecedented, and constitutionally questionable, powers...
This hodgepodge of bad legislation (in the name of ‘National Security’) is bad enough when the laws are implemented piecemeal - but to have them all pulled together under one ‘Umbrella’ EO is downright scary....
It appears as wordsmithing? Ok.
I don’t see it that way given all the previous legislation and orders that have come before its issuance.
I think that is a key difference. Under Clinton and a number of Presidents, this has been a planning and logistics requirement. The planning was done and key assets identified for use in the event of an emergency before it happened.
This EO does not read that way to me.