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    Congressman Asks White House For Plan After Terrorist Attack, Denied

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

    http://www.oregonlive.com/news/orego...910.xml&coll=7

    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.

    "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.
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    beltman713 Guest
    They didn't want to tell him about the concentration camps and the seizing of assets of anyone who criticizes the white house or the president. They didn't want to tell him that he and all his colleagues in the congress would be stripped of their positions and power because congress would be disbanded along with the courts. The president would be the supreme power, the United States first dictator.

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    AuGmENTor Guest
    It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive.
    In other words, scrutiny of the policies would result in an immediate riot/ revolution.

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