"MARTIAL LAW"
HOMELAND INSECURITY
In event of emergency ... call out the military?
Defense appropriations bill gives soldiers domestic responsibilities
Posted: November 16, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
New
federal legislation shows the Bush administration has begun
systematically putting in place authorization for the president to
federalize the National Guard and use the U.S. military in domestic
emergency situations.
A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 1585)
requires the secretary of defense to prepare and submit to Congress by
March 1, 2008, and each subsequent March 1 a plan to coordinate the use
of the National Guard and members of the Armed Forces on active duty
when responding to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other
man-made disasters.
Section
1806 of H.R. 1585 requires the secretary of defense to prepare two
versions of the plan, one using only members of the National Guard, and
one using both members of the National Guard and members of the regular
components of the armed services. The
section also requires the secretary of defense's plan to specify
"Protocols for the Department of Defense, the National Guard Bureau,
and the governors of the several states to carry out operations in
coordination with each other and to ensure that governors and local
communities are properly informed and remain in control in their
respective states and communities." ******************************************************************************************************* HOMELAND INSECURITY
General would deploy troops on U.S. soil
NORTHCOM commander ready to obey any presidential order to intervene in domestic emergency
Posted: November 16, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and USNORTHCOM,
the United States Northern Command, invited WND staff reporter Jerome
R. Corsi to visit Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
to observe Day Three of the NORAD-USNORTHCOM exercise Vigilant Shield
2008.
Corsi was the first outside news reporter allowed inside the Joint Interagency Coordination Group, or JIACG, to observe command center operations during a real-time national training exercise.
This article and tomorrow's fifth part in the series are based on an interview WND conducted Oct 18 with Renuart.
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
"If
he were to choose to declare a national emergency, then clearly we at
USNORTHCOM would be able to operate in that environment, in response to
direct orders from the secretary of defense," Gen. Victor E. "Gene"
Renuart told WND at his Peterson Air Force Base headquarters in
Colorado Springs, Colo.
"But,
I'm not sure that would ever be a routine event, and certainly it would
be a minority event," he added in an interview conducted during a
simulation of a multi-pronged terrorist attack.
As
WND reported earlier this year, President Bush appears to have
positioned the U.S. military and the National Guard, acting under
presidential authority, to intervene in a wide range of domestic
incidents that could occur anywhere in North America.
USNORTHCOM
was established in 2002 with responsibility for a "homeland defense"
area that includes the U.S., Canada, Mexico, parts of the Caribbean and
waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans contiguous to the U.S.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The commander of USNORTHCOM says he's
prepared to obey any order from the president to deploy U.S. troops on
American soil in response to a domestic emergency.
President Bush at NORTHCOM command center
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