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Coal, The exercise they conducted according to the following link may soon do away with our constitutional rights. Have you read the Reuters release?

The Bush administration used the September 11 terrorist attack as an opportunity to implement a "shadow government," based on old plans prepared during the Cold War. More than 150 officials were initially evacuated by helicopter to different locations in mountainous regions of the eastern United States.

Signed by his father in November 1990, Law 101-647 allows Bush to declare a national emergency for almost any reason, an earthquake, a terrorist attack, or even an economic crisis. In the event of a Bush declared emergency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency – FEMA, is empowered to implement the horrific Executive Orders 10995 through 11005. As acting president of the United States during the declaration of a national emergency and Martial Law Bush can also issue Executive Orders, granting him far reaching powers to unilaterally create law without congressional oversight and approval.


Same link I previously sent.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=1810307


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Tuesday conducted an exercise to prepare for a terror attack and widened warplane patrols around the United States amid fresh concern about threats to nuclear power plants and other vital infrastructure facilities.

Two days after the U.S. government raised its terror alert to the second-highest level, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emphasized the gravity of the threat.

"You ask, 'Is it serious?' Yes, you bet your life. People don't do that unless it's a serious situation," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon briefing.

The Defense Department conducted an exercise in which some Pentagon officials were moved to remote locations to practice maintaining leadership continuity over the U.S. military in the event of an attack, defense officials said.

A hijacked commercial airliner crashed into the Pentagon, the massive U.S. military headquarters across the Potomac River from Washington, during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America blamed by the Bush administration on the al Qaeda network.

One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the emergency-response exercise involved transporting a group of department officials to undisclosed remote locations where they would practice assuming leadership of the U.S. military in an attack scenario.

"We don't want a break in continuity of leadership," the official said.

The Pentagon officials involved and the locations to which they were taken were not identified.

MORE WARPLANES PATROLLING U.S. SKIES

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Americans can expect to see additional patrols by U.S. warplanes over various cities and critical infrastructure sites, and an increase in the air defenses in Washington.

In the past, the Pentagon has deployed mobile surface-to-air missile launchers around the U.S. capital region.

Myers also said U.S. combat aircraft could be put on a higher alert at different air bases throughout America.

Another defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. authorities believe the al Qaeda network headed by Osama bin Laden or other extremists may be planning attacks against critical infrastructure sites. These may include nuclear power plants, electric power plants, dams and oil industry facilities, the official said.

"They are just logical things that have been discussed" as potential targets, the official said. "They could be targets of interest."

Rumsfeld said Bush administration officials do not take it lightly when they raise the alert status.

"An elevated alert level or a force-protection level costs money. It costs money for the federal government. It costs money for the state and local government," Rumsfeld said.

"Second, it imposes a stress on people involved -- that is to say the United States military, other federal agencies, state governments, local governments."

But Rumsfeld said Americans should not cower in fear.

"We shouldn't sit around, you know, hiding under chairs and hoping it will go away. We have to live our lives and that's what we'll all do, and that's precisely what the president suggested," Rumsfeld said.

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=031223&cat=news&st=newssecurityusathreatd....