WTF? WaPo: On June 19, 4,000 Gov't Employees Will Head for Bunkers

[elehhhhna]

BACK TO THE BUNKER (A tinfoiler's dream?!! ~ elena)

By William M. Arkin
Sunday, June 4, 2006; B01
On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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After 9/11, The Washington Post reported that President Bush had set up a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work outside Washington on a rotating basis to ensure the continuity of national security. Since then, a program once focused on presidential succession and civilian control of U.S. nuclear weapons has been expanded to encompass the entire government. From the Department of Education to the Small Business Administration to the National Archives, every department and agency is now required to plan for continuity outside Washington.
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A 2004 GAO audit of 34 government continuity-of-operations plans found total confusion on the question of essential functions. One unnamed organization listed 399 such functions. A department included providing "speeches and articles for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary" among its essential duties, while neglecting many of its central programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410_pf.html

[shadowknows69]

1. Oh yeah,

I forgot the end of the world was scheduled for today. Thanks for the reminder. I'm going back to sleep then.

[Kagemusha]

2. It's a drill.

I don't see the big deal...

[shain from kane]

3. Cover for the real purpose --- fascist dictatorship. n/t

[lonestarnot]

4. I do not like how in the past his drills have become his reality and

unfortunately ours too.