1947 National Security Act ( Allows for limited congressional oversight regarding the activity's of the U.S Intelligence Agency's. The National Security Act passed in 1947, allows US Intelligence to begin any action, at any time, without asking anybody. In addition, US Intelligence may postpone indefinitely any report of such activity simply by claiming that making the report would harm the "national security" of the United States. This is a recipe for absolute power. It follows that the National Security Act of 1947 gave US Intelligence the power -- if not the explicit authority -- to corrupt the press in secret. This article will argue, and document, that this is precisely what US Intelligence has done. Naturally, this raises the sharpest possible questions about the integrity of US democracy. )
http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/NSA47PUBLIC.pdf
US Military Intelligence Report
http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r381_10.pdf
Garden Plot
http://www.uscg.mil/directives/cim/3000-3999/CIM_3010_14.pdf
Presidential Directive 51 ( Original Document, gov. website, gives the executive complete control over all branches of government with large sections of the bill so classified not even congress can read it.)
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008
President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.
The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.
That job, as the document describes, 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.
The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" 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."
When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."
Translated into layman's terms, when the president determines a national emergency has occurred, the president can declare to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is declared over.
Ironically, the directive sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.
The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.
Further established is a Continuity Policy Coordination Committee, chaired by a senior director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, to be "the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination."
Currently, the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.
Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as assistant commandant for intelligence.
She is a White House staff member in the executive office of the president who also chairs the Homeland Security Council, which as a counterpart to the National Security Council reports directly to the president.
The directive issued May 9 makes no attempt to reconcile the powers created there for the National Continuity Coordinator with the National Emergency Act. As specified by U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 34, Subchapter II, Section 1621, the National Emergency Act allows that the president may declare a national emergency but requires that such proclamation "shall immediately be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register."
A Congressional Research Service study notes that under the National Emergency Act, the president "may seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and, in a variety of ways, control the lives of United States citizens."
The CRS study notes that the National Emergency Act sets up congress as a balance empowered to "modify, rescind, or render dormant such delegated emergency authority," if Congress believes the president has acted inappropriately.
NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 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.
NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 also makes no reference whatsoever to Congress. The language of the May 9 directive appears to negate any a requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists, suggesting instead that the powers of the executive order can be implemented without any congressional approval or oversight.
Homeland Security spokesperson Russ Knocke affirmed that the Homeland Security Department will be implementing the requirements of NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 under Townsend's direction.
The White House had no comment.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
Analysis of the directive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/230507martiallaw.htm
Operation Northwoods ( Proof of the United States governments plans for “false flag” terror operations )
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
ABC Northwoods story
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
War Powers Act (On November 19, 1973, the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency presented Senate Report 93-549 at the first session of the 93rd Congress. The Introduction to the report, an examination of existing War and Emergency Powers Acts, states:
"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Harry S. Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Richard M. Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971."[1]
"These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes."[2]
"Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.")
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_Powers_Act
Army Civilian Labor Program (self explanatory)
http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf
2006 Military Commissions Act- a total violation of due process ( allows for secret arrests of U.S citizens with no explanation of the reason for being detained, conviction by a military tribunal with no jury, and secret execution )
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:h6054ih.txt.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/cheney/military_commissions_act.pdf
“This act officially allows the President to override all state and local authority and station troops anywhere in America as well as relinquishes the National Guard of control without the consent of the Governor or local authorities in order to "suppress public disorder". The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities currently under construction by Halliburton.” - Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman
BellaOnline's Human Rights Editor
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2006.
On October 17th, 2006, with one fell swoop of the pen, President Bush quietly signed into law the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), effectively positioning the US Government full and complete autonomy at a Federal Level regardless and irrespective of local authority. This act is [b]not[b] the same legislation as the previously featured Military Commissions Act, but was made official that same day.
This act officially allows the President to override all state and local authority and station troops anywhere in America as well as relinquishes the National Guard of control without the consent of the Governor or local authorities in order to "suppress public disorder". The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for detention in facilities currently under construction by Halliburton.
Previously, the Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335), designed to protect the citizens of the United States against unfair martial law by enforcing strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement along with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 were two laws which specifically served to protect the American people against undue diligence or governmental power. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibited Federal military personnel under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Congress, a right which our ancestors felt was inherently important - important enough to enact an entire act around this. Together, these two acts served to substantially limit the powers of the Federal government's use of military for law enforcement.
What allowed this to happen? The Homeland Security Act, Title 6 Chapter 1 Subchapter VIII, Part H, Sec, 466 began to tear away the foundations of this act specifically:
1. Section 1385 of title 18 (commonly known as the Posse Comitatus Act) prohibits the use of the Armed Forces as a Posse comitatus to execute the laws except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the constitution or Act of Congress.
2. Enacted in 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act was expressly intended to prevent United States Marshals, on their own initiative, from calling on the Army for assistance in enforcing Federal law.
3. Some believe the Posse Comitatus Act has served the Nation well in limiting the use of the Armed Forces to enforce the law. Whether this is a good thing or not is subject to debate.
4. The Posse Comitatus Act was not intended to be a complete barrier to the use of the Armed Forces for a range of domestic purposes, including law enforcement functions, when the use of the Armed Forces is authorized by Act of Congress or the President determines that the use of the Armed Forces is required to fulfill the President's obligations under the Constitution provide for the common defense or to respond promptly to insurrection, or other serious emergency.
5. Existing laws, including Title 10, Chapter 15 (commonly known as The Insurrection Act, and The Robert T.Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, grant the President broad powers that may be invoked in the event of domestic emergencies, including an attack against the Nation using weapons of mass destruction, and these laws specifically authorize the President to use the Armed Forces to help restore public order.
6. The Posse Comitatus Act could be replaced, nullified or modified by a simple act of Congress.
With a key nod to the 6th point, and with no further acts of terrorism which made it a necessity to change it, changed it was.
Only one representative, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), verbally contested this act, noting that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order without the consent of the nation's governors."
Senator Leahy went on record as saying, "We certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."
It's a scary prospect. And while we all like to hope that the Government only has our own best interests at this act effectively sets up shop for the Federal Government to come into any town USA and take over, no questions asked, for whatever reason they see fit.
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