Peter Dale Scott, CounterPunch.org: Congress, the Bush Administration and Continuity of Government Planning – The Showdown

    In August 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio, a member of the House
    Homeland Security Committee, told the House that he and the rest of his
    Committee had been barred from reviewing parts of National Security
    Presidential Directive 51, the White House supersecret plans to
    implement so-called “Continuity of Government” in the event of a mass
    terror attack or natural disaster. (1)
    Norm Ornstein, of the conservative American Enterprise Institute,
    commented, “I cannot think of one good reason” for denial. Ornstein
    added, “I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual,
    knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White
    House.” (2)
    (…)
    There is nothing wrong with disaster planning per se. Like all
    governments, the U.S. government must develop plans for the worst
    contingencies. But 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, which journalists have
    described as involving suspension of the constitution. (3)
    (…)

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