National Emergency With Respect to Persons Who Commit,Threaten To Commit,

[NVMojo]

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Part IV

The President
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Notice of September 21, 2005--Continuation of the National Emergency
With Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support
Terrorism

Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President
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Notice of September 21, 2005


Continuation of the National Emergency With
Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or
Support Terrorism

On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, I
declared a national emergency with respect to persons
who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism,
pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706). I took this action to deal
with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the
national security, foreign policy, and economy of the
United States constituted by the grave acts of
terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign
terrorists, including the terrorist attacks in New
York, in Pennsylvania, and against the Pentagon
committed on September 11, 2001, and the continuing and
immediate threat of further attacks against United
States nationals or the United States. Because the
actions of these persons who commit, threaten to
commit, or support terrorism continue to pose an
unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States,
the national emergency declared on September 23, 2001,
and the measures adopted on that date to deal with that
emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 23,
2005. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of
the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am
continuing for 1 year the national emergency with
respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or
support terrorism.

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

(Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 21, 2005.

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[seejanerun]

1. Just in time for the peace march!

Don't you think?

[NVMojo]

2. THAT'S IT!!!! You are right!!!!

[leveymg]

3. KICKED! READ THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ABOVE

So, Mr. President, who is it who still poses such an extraordinary threat to our lives and safety? I am not so bothered by your potential power to declare martial law as by the demonstrated fact that terrorist strikes seem to shadow the very exercises that are designed to prepare us to defeat them. I refer, of course, to what happened on both 9/11 and 7/7.

Now, read this:

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/09/today_in_dc_com.html
William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
Today in DC: Commandos in the Streets?
Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is conducting a highly classified Granite Shadow "demonstration."

Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control.

A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) confirmed the existence of Granite Shadow to me yesterday, but all he would say is that Granite Shadow is the unclassified name for a classified plan.

SNIP

When that "area of operations" is the United States, things become particularly sensitive.

That's where Granite Shadow comes in. U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), the military's new homeland security command, is preparing its draft version of CONPLAN 0400 for military operations in the United States, and the resulting Granite Shadow plan has been classified above Top Secret by adding a Special Category (SPECAT) compartment restricting access.

The sensitivities, according to military sources, include deployment of "special mission units" (the so-called Delta Force, SEAL teams, Rangers, and other special units of Joint Special Operations Command) in Washington, DC and other domestic hot spots. NORTHCOM has worked closely with U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), as well as the secret branches of non-military agencies and departments to enforce "unity of command" over any post 9/11 efforts.

Further, Granite Shadow posits domestic military operations, including intelligence collection and surveillance, unique rules of engagement regarding the use of lethal force, the use of experimental non-lethal weapons, and federal and military control of incident locations that are highly controversial and might border on the illegal.

Granite Shadow is the twin to Power Geyser, a program I first revealed to The New York Times in January. The JFHQ spokesman confirms that Granite Shadow and Power Geyser are two different unclassified names for two different classified plans.

In the case of Power Geyser, the classified plan is CJCS CONPLAN 0300, whose entire title is classified. According the military documents, the unclassified title is "Counter-Terrorism Special Operations Support to Civil Agencies in the event of a domestic incident." It is another Top Secret/SPECAT plan directing the same special mission units to provide weapons of mass destruction recovery and "render safe" in either a terrorist incident or in the case of a stolen (or lost) nuclear weapon. Render safe refers to the ability of explosive ordnance disposal experts to isolate and disarm any type of biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological weapon.

SNIP

There's still time. The full-scale exercise of Granite Shadow's capabilities and procedures doesn’t start until April 2006.

A note to readers: Today begins a weekly feature of Early Warning, namely code name of the week. This will endeavor to discuss some secret program of the government, sometimes with an argument that the secrecy is excessive, sometime with far more questions than answers.

[NVMojo]

4. Great ....more of the same old shit like FEMA exercises in NYC on 9-11

[leveymg]

5. That exercise started on 9/10. Come on, kick this - don't let it sink!

Google Vigilant Guardian or Vigilant Warrior for the Pentagon's 9/11 "exercises". Paul Thompson has an excellent article on the subject at Cooperative Research.

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7. leveymg

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[NVMojo]

9. er, this is public record of a Presidential administrative order

As a former journalist, I can state that there is NO COPYRIGHT on this. The heavy handedness of DU moderators sometimes makes me want to withdraw from here. If I posted the Pledge of Allegiance, would you nag me about that too?

[Lilyhoney]

6. kick

[lildreamer316]

8. Kick