President Bush President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.
The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive" was signed May 9, notes Jerome R. Corsi in a WND column.
It was issued with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive.
The directive establishes under the office of the president a new national continuity coordinator whose job is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.
"Catastrophic emergency" is loosely defined as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."
Corsi says the president can assume the power to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is declared over.
The directive says the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, currently Frances Fragos Townsend, would be designated as the national continuity coordinator.
Corsi says the directive makes no attempt to reconcile the powers created for the national continuity coordinator with the National Emergency Act, which requires that such proclamation "shall immediately be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register."
A Congressional Research Service study notes the National Emergency Act sets up Congress as a balance empowered to "modify, rescind, or render dormant" such emergency authority if Congress believes the president has acted inappropriately.
But the new directive appears to supersede the National Emergency Act by creating the new position of national continuity coordinator without any specific act of Congress authorizing the position, Corsi says.
The directive also makes no reference to Congress and its language appears to negate any requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists.
It suggests instead that the powers of the directive can be implemented without any congressional approval or oversight.
Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke affirmed to Corsi the Homeland Security Department would implement the requirements of the order under Townsend's direction.
The White House declined to comment on the directive
-------------------- "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" Posts: 4005 | From: Shaolin | Registered: Oct 2005
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all he needs is a serious flu outbreak, and our democracy is dead...
i'm not saying he will do it..
but?
somebody will be able to do it and point to his "laws" to justify it...
he has set so many bad precedents by failing to act and blaming the system, that people are now begging for him to make the system "stronger" and that's not how the Constitution was designed... it was designed on the assumption that we would HIRE qualified people to run our country, not a bunch of g-damn cheerleaders..
running the country is not an athletic event people..
the GOP convention last time reminded me of a High School Pep Rally... sickening.
this TB case all over the news is a good example of how the propaganda machine is working...
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"all he needs is a serious flu outbreak, and our democracy is dead...
i'm not saying he will do it..
but?
somebody will be able to do it and point to his "laws" to justify it... "
Yes, fascism....and class war within the nation....victory to the least moral and least responsible.
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Of course the article is true Buash is a fascist and anytime he can slip something threw to take away more rights he will
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He merely exercises an agenda that has run rampant among far right republican conservatives for decades.
All one needs to do is read Supreme Court opinions written by jurist appointed by republicans or from their public appearances lately and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Take, for instance, a statement made by Antonin Scalia during a "forum" on constitutional law on PBS TV a couple of years back to the effect that, according to Scalia, any power or right not specifically denied by the Constitution to the Federal Government, the Federal Government already has and it cannot be denied by act of Congress.
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Bush is not the the lone fascist he does represent a group that is always under the surface in America that does surface from time to time, Like the manure in the rose garden.
They do this when they get a toady in power like Bush.
What Bush does just is amazing to me because he does it with the conviction that he is right and just.
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Not to be pro Bush because I'm not but love him or hate him you have to give him credo's for sticking to his guns however unpopular it is. That takes cajones (ballz for those who don't speak spanish). But by doing so and not listening to the American people he has single handlely destroyed his Party and has made the world hate us more then any other president in U.S. history except perhaps Nixon.
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He's done what Nixon only dreamed of and it is quite well recognized all across the world.
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O.k....Say the President Was Not Bush. Do you all agree with the new powers the Prez would have?
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