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Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again

By Peter Dale Scott

URL of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10065

Global Research, September 4, 2008

Though few Americans realize it, Cheney and Rumsfeld worked through the
1980s and 1990s on emergency nuclear-response plans which allegedly
suspended the American constitution and also Congress.[1] (Through these
decades Rumsfeld was CEO of a major pharmaceutical firm, and in the later
1990s Cheney was CEO of Halliburton; but their private status did not deter
them from continuing to exercise a supra-constitutional planning power
conferred on them by Ronald Reagan.)

Even fewer Americans know that these rules, originally dealing with a
nuclear attack on America, were extended by Reagan Executive Order 12656 to
cover "any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack,
technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or
seriously threatens the national security of the United States."[2] And few
Americans realize that at least some of these rules, known technically as
Continuity of Government or COG rules, were invoked before 10:00 AM on
September 11, 2001.[3]

As he did in 2007, President Bush has again, on August 28, 2008, continued
for another year the national emergency first officially proclaimed on
September 14, 2001, along with "the powers and authorities adopted to deal
with that emergency:"

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain
Terrorist Attacks

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency I declared on
September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist
attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, the Pentagon, and
aboard United Airlines flight 93, and the continuing and immediate threat of
further attacks on the United States.

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on
September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that
emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2008. Therefore, I
am continuing in effect for an additional year the national emergency I
declared on September 14, 2001, with respect to the terrorist threat.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to
the Congress.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 28, 2008.[4]

Once again appropriate personnel in Congress should learn and review what
those "powers and authorities" are, since almost certainly they include COG
(Continuity of Government) rules. In 2007 National Security Presidential
Directive 51 (NSPD 51), issued by the White House, also extended for one
year the emergency proclaimed in 2001; and it empowered the President to
personally ensure "continuity of government."[5]

NSPD 51 also contained "classified Continuity Annexes" to "be protected from
unauthorized disclosure." Congressman DeFazio twice requested to see these
Annexes, the second time in a letter cosigned by House Homeland Security
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman
Christopher Carney. The White House denied these requests, claiming that the
congressmen lacked the requisite clearances. But as I wrote earlier this
year,

"Congress has a right to be concerned about Continuity of Government (COG)
plans refined by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld over the past quarter
century .The story, ignored by the mainstream press, involved more than the
usual tussle between the legislative and executive branches of the U.S.
Government. What was at stake was a contest between Congress's
constitutional powers of oversight, and a set of policy plans that could be
used to suspend or modify the constitution."[6]

Oliver North, who worked on COG planning with Rumsfeld and Cheney in the
1980s, was asked in the Iran-Contra Hearings about his work on an emergency
plan "that would suspend the American constitution." Democratic Senator
Inouye, who was presiding, pounded his gavel and interjected that this was a
"highly sensitive and classified matter," not to be dealt with in an open
hearing.[7] Congress has never discussed COG plans publicly since that time.

According to Wikipedia, "The National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601-1651)
is a United States federal law passed in 1976 to stop open-ended states of
national emergency and formalize Congressional checks and balances on
Presidential emergency powers. The act sets a limit of two years on states
of national emergency. It also imposes certain "procedural formalities" on
the President when invoking such powers, and provides a means for Congress
to countermand a Presidential declaration of emergency and associated use of
emergency powers (emphasis added).

Bush's denial of the Homeland Security's right to review the COG plans in
the classified Appendices of NSPD-51 should have been seen as a
constitutional crisis -- a line in the sand for Congress to assert its
constitutional rights and duties. Now, one year later, I understand
(although I cannot corroborate it from the Internet) that Congressman
Kucinich has introduced or will introduce a bill for Congress, under the
terms of the National Emergencies Act, to countermand the presidentially
proclaimed national emergency. This is an important move, but it should not
obviate the need for Congress to review rules which allegedly restrict its
own powers under the constitution.

Between now and November the American electorate have an opportunity to
present this demand to everyone running for office: that they will insist on
vigorous congressional action to expose and dispose of these secret COG
rules -- rules that allegedly suspend the American constitution.

Notes

[1] "One of the awkward questions we faced was whether to reconstitute
Congress after a nuclear attack. It was decided that no, it would be easier
to operate without them," said one of the COG planners in the 1980s, who
spoke to James Mann (The Rise of the Vulcans, 141-42). James Bamford
reported the same remark in his book Pretext for War (p. 74).

[2]
The provisions of Executive Order 12656 of November 18, 1988, appear at 53
FR 47491, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 585, "Executive Order 12656—Assignment of
Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities,"
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order....
The Washington Post

(Gellman and Schmidt, "Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret," March 1,
2002) later claimed, incorrectly, that Executive Order 12656 dealt only with
"a nuclear attack."

[3]
Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of
America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007),
228; citing 9/11Commision Report, 38, 326; Richard A. Clarke, Against All
Enemies: Inside America's War on Terrorism (New York: Simon & Schuster,
2004), 8.

[4]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/08/20080828-7.html .
[5]
National Security Presidential Directive 51,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html.

[6]
Peter Dale Scott, "Congress, the Bush Adminstration and Continuity of
Government Planning: The Showdown,"
http://www.counterpunch.org/scott03312008.html.

[7]
Scott, Road to 9/11, 9, 23, 184. The New York Times published a complete
transcript of the interchange on July 14, 1987, but did not mention it in
its news story about North's testimony.

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