Bomb Drill at White House or the March Surprise?

Bomb drill at White House
25/02/2007 10:01 - (SA)

Search BOMB DRILL AND MARTIAL LAW -- this is the new Bird Flu -- he's going to declare martial law if he thinks he can get away with it. And he could. He's close to being impeached and he's not fully in control and he HAS TO BE. HE will do what it takes to keep America under his control. It's part of a plan. It's called PNAC.


Washington - Dozens of high-level officials joined in a White House drill to see how the government would respond if several US cities were attacked simultaneously by bombs similar to those commonly used against American troops in Iraq.

President George W Bush went on a bike ride not far from the White House on Saturday morning, and did not take part in the test.
I guess all the copies of MY PET GOAT were checked out??

President George W Bush went on a bike ride not far from the White House on Saturday morning, and did not take part in the test.

They had to make it life-like. (I had to edit this to include my boy's comment. Okay, he's funnier than I am ~~~)

White House homeland CONTROL adviser Fran Townsend presided over the three-hour exercise that brought the government's highest level homeland control officials to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.

All Cabinet agencies were represented by their secretaries or other high-ranking officials, with a total of about 90 participants, said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesperson.

Stanzel said the drill revealed gaps in the government's ability to respond, but also showed that there have been many improvements since Hurricane Katrina exposed federal inadequacies (is this meant as a joke??) when it devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005.

For instance, coordination with state and local authorities and the ability to get federal resources in place quickly - key missteps after Katrina - appeared much better now, Stanzel said.

Townsend and the Homeland Security (CONTROL) Council that she heads mapped out in advance a massive disaster involving improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, in 10 US cities at the same time, using a combination of large and small towns, said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

IED attacks are being used by insurgents in Iraq with regularity to kill hundreds of civilians and soldiers in Iraq. Recently, the Bush administration has said that IEDs and other weaponry in Iraq are coming from Iran. (or anywhere else bush wants to attack!)But Stanzel said the test was not inspired by new intelligence or any increased chatter about terrorists' desire to use IEDs inside the United States. He noted that both the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 involved homemade bombs.

"The threat of an IED goes back 14 years," he said. "It's important for the administration to prepare for any eventuality, just as we have prepared for a pandemic flu, a smallpox outbreak or a major hurricane."

Indeed, this was the administration's fourth such "tabletop" exercise since the first in December 2005 on a bird flu or other pandemic outbreak. (i didn't even realize this was mentioned in my haste to post this dire crap)
Townsend's scenario envisioned requests pouring in from state and local control authorities, and also assumed many local abilities would be diminished by the scale of the disaster.

The discussion began with the period immediately after the attacks, then moved to circumstances gamed out for weeks later. (when the dissenters attempted to escape the camps, no doubt) At each point, the agency representatives were directed to detail what they would do, the official said.

The next step is for the homeland CONTROL council to study the role play and report on what gaps were revealed, Stanzel said.

ADDENDUM: When I was in D.C. Camp Democracy I observed that they were taking measurements of our National monuments for some asinine reason (stated on the placards) ... perish the thought he's gonna stage another ATTACK on our nation's capitol and demolish what many TRUE AMERICANS hold close as the beginning of the dream.