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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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W.House proposal would grant FBI access to Internet activity records without court order 29 Jul 2010 The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The administration wants to add four words — "electronic communication transactional records" — to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge’s approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user’s browser history. It does not include, the lawyers say, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication.
July 29, 2010 by legitgov
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Shirley Sherrod Vows to Sue Andrew Breitbart 29 Jul 2010 Ousted USDA official Shirley Sherrod said in a speech to the National Association of Black Journalists in San Diego this morning that she will sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative journalist self-promoter and activist who posted the out-of-context video of her that resulted in her forced resignation. Speaking of a lawsuit, Sherrod said she "will definitely do it," arguing that "he had to know that he was targeting me."
July 29, 2010 by legitgov
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‘It’s quite an invasive data collection system.’ FBI defends guidelines for domestic surveillance 28 Jul 2010 Under fire from civil liberties groups, the FBI is defending domestic surveillance guidelines that critics fear could unfairly target innocent Muslims in terrorism and other criminal investigations. The manual was approved in December 2008, during the final days of the George W. Bush administration, and establishes policy that guides all the FBI’s domestic operations, including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, crime and cyber crime.
July 29, 2010 by legitgov
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Karzai orders Wikileaks investigation [LOL!] 29 Jul 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into revelations made by the whistleblower website Wikileaks. The Afghan president made the remarks at a press conference in the capital city of Kabul on Thursday. He was also asked about the Afghan informants who allegedly helped foreign troops in their operations against the Taliban. Karzai described the release of the Afghans’ names in the documents released by Wikileaks as irresponsible, saying the move has endangered their security. [So does your funding both sides along with your druglord/CIA-owned brother.]
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Republicans block campaign finance measure –Democrats say the fight over the DISCLOSE Act will continue, and they try to tie the GOP to corporate interests. 28 Jul 2010 Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a vote on a bill that would force special interest groups to disclose their donors when purchasing political ads, defeating an effort to impose new campaign finance regulations before the November congressional election. As the Senate’s 41 Republicans voted in unison to filibuster the bill, Democrats vowed to bring the legislation up again.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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IED kills two Italian soldiers 29 Jul 2010 A roadside bomb has killed two Italian soldiers in western Afghanistan, the Italian Defense Ministry announced. Not naming the exact location of the incident, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement that the two were killed by an improvised explosive device (IED).
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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FBI and military investigating source of leaked Afghan war documents 29 Jul 2010 The FBI and the Justice Department are working with the military to investigate the source of the leak of tens of thousands of classified military documents on the Afghan war to WikiLeaks.org, U.S. officials said Wednesday. WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy group, posted all but 15,000 documents of what it is calling "The Afghan War Diary" on Sunday. WikiLeaks has declined to name its source, but the probe initially is focused on Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a Pentagon spokesman said, and may include others who have helped him.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Aetna’s Earnings Up 42 Percent 27 Jul 2010 Aetna reported earnings up 42 percent for the second quarter compared with last year, despite a 2 percent drop in revenue partly related to businesses having fewer workers and therefore spending less on health insurance. The Hartford-based health insurer reported net income of $491 million for the second quarter, or $1.14 per diluted share, compared with $362.8 million, or 77 cents per diluted share, for the same quarter last year. The company benefitted from lower medical-benefit ratios, also called medical-loss ratio, which is a percentage of every dollar collected in premiums that is spent on medical costs.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Cameron calls Gaza ‘prison camp’ 27 Jul 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron called Gaza a "prison camp" on Tuesday, a blunt description from a major Western leader about the besieged Palestinian territory. Cameron made the remarks in the Turkish capital of Ankara, which he was visiting to forge a new relationship with Turkey and show his support for Turkish membership in the European Union. "Let me also be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp," Cameron said, according to a transcript of the speech provided by his office.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Netherlands destroying 17 million swine flu vaccine doses 27 Jul 2010 The Netherlands is destroying more than 17 million unused doses of swine flu vaccine that were nearing their expiry date and that it could not resell, the health ministry said Tuesday. "We have started destroying" the vaccines, health ministry spokeswoman Inge Freriksen told AFP. "In the coming months, 17.8 million doses will be destroyed because the expiry date is approaching."
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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AU to send 4,000 troops to Somalia, change of mandate still under consideration: AU commission chairman 28 Jul 2010 The African Union (AU) will send an additional 4,000 troops to Somalia while the change of the peacekeeping mandate is still under consideration, the African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping told a press conference on Tuesday after the closing of the AU summit. Jean Ping said that half of the 4,000 troops will be from the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) and the rest will be from Guinea and Djibouti.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories –Other reports show U.S. military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as ‘our journalists’ and directing them in how to do their jobs. 27 Jul 2010 Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories. Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams (also known as PRTs, civilian-military hybrids tasked with rebuilding Afghanistan) show that local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the United States.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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A return to silence in a post-WikiLeaks world? –Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill worry that the leaking incident will give the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies an excuse to go back to old ways of holding back some information as "too sensitive" to be shared. 28 Jul 2010 Dismayed by the massive war-documents leak, intelligence experts are raising alarms that post-Sept. 11 changes promoting information sharing have made it too easy to lose control of the nation’s secrets. Some intelligence veterans say it’s time to rethink how widely classified material is shared at lower levels or, at the very least, to step up monitoring of the people who are given access. Both intelligence officials and outside experts suggested that agency chiefs may push to limit access to electronic "portals" that have provided growing data access to intelligence officers, diplomats and troops around the world.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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‘The issue for the region right now is we have gas coming out of an uncontrolled well head.’ Tug vessel hits abandoned gas well in Barataria Waterway –Accident happened halfway between Lafitte and Grand Isle, near same water polluted by BP oil spill 27 Jul 2010 The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans. A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug vessel Pere Ana C while pushing a dredge barge struck the abandoned wellhead around one Tuesday morning.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Sarah Palin comes face to face with brown bear on fishing trip –Sarah Palin came face to face with a mother bear and her cubs on a salmon fishing expedition in Alaska. 28 Jul 2010 The former Republican vice-presidential contender was sharing a boat with her husband, Todd, their nine-year-old daughter, Piper, and friends in Wolverine Creek when the bears emerged from the trees. The two mothers exchanged glances and then the brown bear, which had paused on a rock, wandered off with her cubs leaving the Palins looking stunned. The former Alaska [half] governor is a keen hunter and angler who keeps a grizzly bear hide, shot by her father, draped over her sofa in her office. [If there was any justice in the world, the beautiful bear and her cubs would have had a nice Sarah supper!]
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Five killed in Iraq helicopter crash 28 Jul 2010 An Iraqi military helicopter has crashed in a sandstorm southwest of Baghdad, leaving all five of its crew dead, the commander of the country’s air force says. The five-man crew of the helicopter was killed when it crashed as a result of a sandstorm in Ibrahimiyah on Wednesday, AFP quoted Gen. Anwar Hanna Amin as saying.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Arizona helped deport thousands without new law 28 Jul 2010 Officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was responsible for the deportation or forced departure of 26,146 immigrants since 2007.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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US military investigates contractor work force 28 Jul 2010 The U.S. military said Wednesday it is ‘clamping down’ on contracting firms on American military bases using employees whose home countries ban travel to Iraq, raising questions about why the contractors were allowed to work in the country for so long despite the ban… U.S. Col. Richard E. Nolan, of the military’s contracting office in Iraq, said the military is investigating the firms’ work forces. Nolan said the U.S. military does monthly inspections of the contractors but the focus has generally been on prevention facilitation of human trafficking. Contractors working with the American military have in the past been sharply criticized for taking passports from workers they bring to Iraq.
July 28, 2010 by legitgov
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Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, bill to help responders, may die 28 Jul 2010 The House votes Wednesday or Thursday for the first time ever on a bill to care for the heroes and victims of Sept. 11, 2001 – and it’s likely to fail. Democratic House leaders decided Tuesday to push ahead with the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act under a rule that requires two-thirds approval to pass. Sources told the Daily News that Democrats feared Republicans would attach toxic changes in a simple majority vote. No such tinkering is allowed under the two-thirds rule. Many Republicans are concerned about the $10.5 billion price tag, and many don’t like the way it’s paid for. [Right, but but hypocritical maggots want to keep the illegal wars fully funded and the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent -- no worries on how that's (not) 'paid for.']
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
By Mark Anderson
Did you know that informing Americans about the often bitter truth about their nation and the world constitutes “hate”? Neither did we. But the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center sees itself fit to list 512 American patriot groups in a special issue of its quarterly Intelligence Report and characterize them as “hate” groups—even while admitting, “[The] listing here does not imply that the groups themselves advocate or engage in violence or other criminal activities, or are racist,” as the report states.
If these groups are not criminally inclined, then what’s the problem? The problem from the SPLC’s viewpoint is that many of these groups, whatever their imperfections, communicate pertinent information to a population that is increasingly indifferent to, or distrustful of, big media, misplaced or abused government authority and the rogue corporate structure.
Of course, not every group that made “the list” is always accurate in its views, nor does freedom of speech mean you must be accurate, nor does it exclude those who may say stupid things. It’s not illegal to be eccentric, nor is it against the law to be angry or upset at what’s going on. Most people are. Deal with it.
Corporate structure has colluded with government to impoverish the average person and bail out corporate titans to the tune of billions. Everybody knows this, except, it seems, the SPLC, which wants to tell Americans and law enforcement officials to distrust these citizen groups while those in the corporate world rob our nation and close down our industry.
If calling attention to corporate-government actions that threaten the future of every man, woman and child is “hate,” then some groups listed by the SPLC stand “guilty as charged.”
But observe that usually those who shout “hate” the loudest are themselves the “haters,” for lack of a better word. It’s the world’s oldest trick: Accuse others of what you are guilty of, as a ploy to smear your perceived
opponents. The SPLC seems adept at this. Good people in conservative groups are lumped in with obscure elements and lesser-known groups who would disagree with each other on many issues. But the SPLC makes it seem like they agree on most things, to broaden the smear.
Yet, it’s not as if the SPLC is particularly important or credible. This whole thing has become a tiresome perennial exercise for the leftist SPLC, which sees anyone to the political “right” of its positions as “extremist”—another abused buzzword used to confuse the population. It’s all a matter of perspective. If you are in a group as ultra-left wing as the SPLC, almost everyone else is automatically to the right of you. Then it becomes a question only of who to put on “the list.”
Meanwhile, the SPLC speaks of illegal immigrants as if breaking U.S. immigration laws is unimportant. In other words, it’s OK to enter the nation illegally, but it’s not OK to protest it. Overall, the SPLC’s work borders on slander and libel.
The biggest problem, however, is that the SPLC has the ear of the Department of Homeland Security, among other government agencies that troll for signs of “domestic terrorism” and may equate these American “extremist” groups with potential terrorism without justification.
Most Americans are a mixture of “right” and “left” views, if such labels must be used, and most people actually have much more in common than is usually assumed. For example, except for a minority of neoconservatives running our foreign policy (a breed of alleged conservatives who lust for empire and conquest), a sizable cross section of both liberals and traditional, constitutional conservatives want to stop fighting perpetual wars.
AFP reminds Americans that there are about 800 U.S. military bases in at least 120 nations and that our interventionist foreign policy is bankrupting our nation, maiming and killing our own soldiers who are not given winnable missions, and bringing untold agony and death on innocent foreign people. Is it hateful to report that?
And excuse us for noting that Israel does not need nor deserve exclusive U.S. protection and foreign aid. The Israeli army’s slaughter of largely defenseless Palestinians in late 2008 showed the whole world what that rogue nation is all about.
Thus, hardly more need be said, except to say that just as Germany and other European nations can and should defend themselves without American taxpayers holding their hands, the same goes for Israel, which is perfectly capable, with some 200-400 nuclear weapons, of defending itself. This is not “anti-Semitism.”
SPLC’s Intelligence Report includes this general description: “Of these groups, 127 were militias . . . and the remainder includes ‘common-law’ courts, publishers, ministries and citizen groups. Generally, patriot groups define themselves as opposed to the ‘New World Order,’ engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme anti-government doctrines.”
The actual listing consists of John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Constitution Party, American Independent Party and various other patriot-citizen groups and chapters in all 50 states. None gives any indication of being dangerous. There also is a Texas-based group to end the Federal Reserve’s private central banking racket, which is tough to define as “hate.” And Gary Franchi’s principled Restore the Republic in Illinois is listed, when this writer can personally attest to Franchi’s honesty and passion to report the truth and make America a better place.
Other, more obscure, groups are listed, too, whose status and intentions are unknown. Yet, they all have a right to their opinions and to engage in the political reform process.
Unless engaged in actual, provable crime, any person or group can say anything they want in the United States. May it always remain that way, regardless of attempts by some to reclassify free speech as hate speech and label concerned Americans as “enemies of the state.”
Mark Anderson is a longtime newsman now working as a deputy editor for AFP. He and his wife Angie provide photographs and video of the events they cover for AFP. Listen to Mark’s radio show at republicbroadcasting.org, Saturdays at 2. Email him at at truthhound2@yahoo.com.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Canadian Forces Crowd Confrontation Operations Manual
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This manual is based on the precept that crowd confrontation situations could occur on any CF operation. The doctrine has been
designed to facilitate the use of CCO as a unique operation, which may be a subset of any other CF operation. Where peace support operations (PSO), domestic operations, or armed conflict examples are used, the concepts presented are intended to cover all operations. The manual stresses that the CCO hierarchy can be applied during any operation to assist in the decisions of what equipment to acquire or deploy and what training is to be based on.
Intelligence-Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture
[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Intelligence operations have been reviewed, studied, and slowly but steadily transformed. Most efforts have focused on reorganizing intelligence infrastructures at the federal level; however, corresponding efforts have been made to enhance state and local law enforcement intelligence operations. Such enhancements make it possible for state and local law enforcement agencies to play a role in homeland security. Perhaps more important, improvements to intelligence operations help local law enforcement respond to “traditional” crimes more effectively.
DHS Biosecurity Infrastructure Protection Assessments and Activities Brief
[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FOUO DHS Biosecurity Infrastructure Protection Assessments and Activities Brief, August 2009.
FEMA Composite Enterprise Architecture Overview
[21 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA Composite Enterprise Architecture Overview “The Direction of FEMA’s EA”, June 8, 2009.
FEMA Exercise Modeling & Simulation Briefing
[21 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA Exercise Modeling & Simulation Briefing from the National Exercise Simulation Center (NESC), March 4, 2010.
(U//FOUO) 2009 Presidential Inaugural NSSE Brief
[20 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA 2009 Presidential Inaugural NSSE Brief, January 14, 2010.
Colorado Multiyear Training and Exercise Plan 2010-2012
[19 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The purpose of the Multiyear Training and Exercise Plan (TEP) is to provide a follow-on companion document to the Colorado Homeland Security Strategy and the priorities set by the State Improvement Planning Workshop. It is a living document that will be updated and refined annually. The Multiyear TEP provides a roadmap for Colorado to follow in accomplishing the priorities described in the Homeland Security Strategy through effective trainings and exercises.
Virginia Fusion Center Educational Facilities Threat Assessment
[19 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The purpose of this Threat Assessment is to convey potential threats to educational facilities and related assets in the Commonwealth of Virginia in order to prevent terrorist and insider attacks as well as to increase awareness regarding available threat information. It is anticipated that this assessment will assist homeland security personnel in understanding the potential vulnerabilities to public and private schools, colleges, and universities in order to further assist in responding effectively to an educational facility-related incident. This assessment describes insider threats as well as those posed by domestic extremist and international terrorist groups.
(U//FOUO) DHS/DOJ Fusion Process Analytic Skills & Knowledge Review
[18 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
To facilitate the development of a nationwide, integrated, inter-connected fusion center capability, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) and the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) have partnered to develop and deploy the Fusion Process Technical Assistance Program. This program has been developed in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE); the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and experts from the State and local community—including the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), the Criminal
Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC), and the Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG).
U.S. DOJ-FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy 2011 Draft
[18 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
Law enforcement needs timely and secure access to services that provide data wherever and whenever for stopping and reducing crime. In response to these needs, the Advisory Policy Board (APB) recommended to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division authorize the expansion of the existing security management structure in 1998. Administered through a shared management philosophy, the CJIS Security Policy contains information security requirements, guidelines, and agreements reflecting the will of law enforcement and criminal justice agencies for protecting the sources, transmission, storage, and generation of Criminal Justice Information (CJI); and the Personally Identifiable Information derived from CJI.
TSA Swiss-Made Miniature Gun Warning
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The ATF has issued an officer safety advisory on what is called the world’s smallest gun after a CBS 2 inquiry. The Alert has been issued both in the New York and nationally to all Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives criminal investigators and will be passed on to other federal agencies. The ATF has confiscated thousands of disguised or miniature guns from flashlights that shoot a .25 caliber bullet to pen guns. The latest miniature gun that is alarming the ATF community is the Swiss MiniGun.
Florida HIDTA K2-”Spice” Drug Alert Report
[17 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
K2, or SPICE, is a new illicit drug product that has begun to appear in a limited number of drug markets in the United States. This product is a small package of herbal blends and appears to be treated with differing versions of synthetic Cannabinoids. Effects are reportedly analogous to marijuana but include additional dangers to users such as panic attacks, heart palpitations, hallucinations, delusions, vomiting, increased agitation, dilated pupils, and other symptoms.
Canadian Forces Land Operations Manual
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The doctrine within publication recognizes that in order to reach enduring operational and strategic end states, the root causes of a conflict must be addressed in light of the given environment and its influencing elements and systems. To this end, land forces do not simply undertake physical activities and effects against adversarial forces. Land forces apply their capabilities to complete a combination of physical activities and influence activities that create effects on the physical and psychological lanes. In doing so, a wide range of targets is engaged. This range will certainly include adversaries, but also other groups, systems, and
individuals within the battlespace and environment that play a role in reaching the operational and campaign objectives and end states.
7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Command Operations Brief
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Command Operations Brief, May 14, 2009.
SEC Goldman Sachs Securities Fraud Complaint
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Commission brings this securities fraud action against Goldman, Sachs & Co. (“GS&Co”) and a GS&C6 employee, Fabrice Tourre (“Tourre”), for making materially misleading statements and omissions in connection with a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (“CDO”) GS&Co structured and marketed to investors. This synthetic CDO, ABACUS 2007ACI, was tied to the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) and was structured and marketed by GS&Co in early 2007 when the United States housing market and related securities were beginning to show signs of distress. Synthetic CDOs like ABACUS 2007-ACI contributed to the recent financial crisis by magnifying losses associated with the downturn in the United States housing market.
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Lessons Brief
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Lessons Brief, February 17, 2010.
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Overview Brief
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Overview Brief, February 17, 2010.
(U//FOUO) U.S. Forces – Iraq Armed Civilian Contractor Oversight Operations Order
[14 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Eight FOUO documents comprising the U.S. Forces – Iraq Armed Civilian Contractor Oversight Operations Orders from January-March 2010.
U.S. Forces – Iraq Private Security Contractors (PSC) Registration Requirements
[14 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
1. (U) SITUATION: USF-I, DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND NUMEROUS OTHER ENTITIES IN IRAQ HAVE CONTRACTED SECURITY OPERATIONS FOR FORWARD OPERATING BASES (FOB) AND PERSONAL SECURITY DETAILS (PSD) TO PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTORS (PSC). GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) HAS IN RECENT MONTHS INDICATED THAT CONTRACTED SECURITY COMPANIES ARE NOT OPERATING WITH THE THE PURVIEW OF ESTABLISHED LAW.
FEMA Requests Removal of National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Document
[14 Apr 2010 | 8 Comments | ]
On April 13, 2010, we received a message from Danny Rains who is an investigator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the “Office of Security” requesting the removal of a document entitled “National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Exercise Overview”. The ten page document, which is described in FEMA’s request as “very sensitive”, consists of approximately 20 PowerPoint slides including the title page and was published nearly seven months ago on August 8, 2009. The document is labeled “For Official Use Only” and is marked as a draft copy. The contents of the brief are basically a calender of potential dates for the exercise and very brief descriptions of some preliminary plans for the exercise. The document has already been seen by a large number of people and has been discussed on a variety of websites and forums, including mirrors in some cases.
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
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U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks during a meeting on hurricane preparedness at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, May 29, 2009. Obama is joined by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (2nd R), FEMA Director Craig Fugate (R). REUTERS/Jim Young
Public Intelligence has received a request from FEMA to remove a “For Official Use Only” document regarding the National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10), which was scheduled for this coming May. The exercise was to be based on National Planning Scenario 1 which simulates a nuclear detonation in a U.S. city. However, recent political pressure has led to the exercise being “scaled back” according to the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and a variety of other publications. At the behest of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the exercise’s Nevada events have reportedly been canceled and the FEMA website now shows no mention of NLE 10.
On top of this, the Obama administration has recently been emphasizing the threat of a domestic nuclear attack. President Obama’s remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit on April 13, 2010 emphasize that the threat of terrorists using nuclear weapons inside of major metropolitan cities is one of the “greatest threats” that the world faces:
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history — the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations. Just the smallest amount of plutonium — about the size of an apple — could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Terrorist networks such as al Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon, and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it. Were they to do so, it would be a catastrophe for the world — causing extraordinary loss of life, and striking a major blow to global peace and stability.
In short, it is increasingly clear that the danger of nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global security — to our collective security.
NLE 10 concerned itself with exactly this scenario: the detonation of a nuclear device inside of a U.S. city. Las Vegas was to be the epicenter of this hypothetical attack and, if the exercise utilized the same circumstances as National Planning Scenario 1, it would have involved “hundreds of thousands” of casualties, more than 300,000 refugees and ultimately more than 1 million displaced persons.
The unpopularity of such a scenario, regardless of its security benefits, is obvious. What is strange is the attempt that is now being made by FEMA to eliminate references to the exercises and remove from circulation a document that has played an important role in drawing attention to the exercise. As the state of NLE 10 is unclear at the moment, it is difficult to say whether the request is truly motivated by security or whether there is a more dubious intention.
Related posts:
- FEMA Requests Removal of National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Document
- US prepares major terrorism readiness exercise
- National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Exercise Overview
- mwpoker-1.fema.gov
- DHS Coordinates National Level Exercise to Prevent Terrorist Attacks with Federal, State, Local Tribal, Private Sector, and International Partners
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