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Title: DeFazio asks, but he's denied access: Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/new
URL Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oreg ... ews/118489654058910.xml&coll=7
Published: Jul 20, 2007
Author: JEFF KOSSEFF
Post Date: 2007-07-20 17:36:04 by Kamala
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Views: 156
Comments: 9

DeFazio asks, but he's denied access: Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack

Friday, July 20, 2007

JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff

WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents.

On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.

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"I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says.

Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why.

"We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee."

Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive."

Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee.

"I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said.

This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents.

"Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said.

Jeff Kosseff: 202-383-7814 jeff.kosseff@newhouse.com

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#1. To: Kamala (#0)

The House could add to the appropriations bill for Homeland Security a provision prohibiting the use of any appropriated funds for the implementation of the executive order in question. I believe DeFazio's committee would be responsible for drafting the bill.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-07-20   17:41:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Kamala (#0)

We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress

Not if there's not going to be any Congress in any COG, Fazbaby!

The meek may inherit the earth -- but not its mineral rights. -- J. Paul Getty

swarthyguy  posted on  2007-07-20   17:44:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: swarthyguy (#2)

Someone should pull a Sandy Berger...obviously stealing classified documents is really no big deal, right?

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-07-21   12:59:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Eoghan (#3)

The Office of the Vice President and Bush himself seem to regard the unauthorized release of classified information as no biggie.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-07-21   13:06:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: aristeides, Eoghan (#4)

And today Cheney is King for a Day!

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-21   14:00:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#5)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=3401391&page=2

Given the war in Iraq and terrorist threats across the world, the president invoked Section 3 of the 25th Amendment "out of an abundance of caution,"

He probably revoked the rest of the 25th Amendment...'just to be safe' ;)

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-07-21   14:18:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Eoghan (#6)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=3401391&page=2

Given the war in Iraq and terrorist threats across the world, the president invoked Section 3 of the 25th Amendment "out of an abundance of caution,"

He probably revoked the rest of the 25th Amendment...'just to be safe' ;)

oh dear

Did I mention I'll be in L.A. all afternoon? Good thing I believe in prayer ;)

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-21   14:20:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Kamala (#0)

Sunday Bump

Also this one:

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=57535&Disp

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-22   15:02:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Eoghan (#3)

REX 84 gave the template; limited, ceremonial legislatures with governance by decree, essentially, via the Pentagon, with monarchial authority.

The meek may inherit the earth -- but not its mineral rights. -- J. Paul Getty

swarthyguy  posted on  2007-07-22   15:09:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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