"the administration.... said officials are committed to other kinds of drills, particularly those conducted without notice.... the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks"
Oh, they mean the WAR GAMES being directed by Dick Cheney the morning of 9/11!
Those never appear in my newspaper.
"Amid host of concerns, US scales back national disaster exercises; Questions swirl about preparedness" by Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | April 4, 2010
WASHINGTON — The plan was to stage the nation’s first live exercise that simulates a nuclear bomb being detonated by terrorists in an American city, with 10,000 emergency responders, troops, and officials playing out their roles in the heart of Las Vegas.
Related: Obama's Nuclear Nonsense
So the FALSE FLAG is going to SLIP THROUGH or has the operation been called off?
But
I don't like that word anymore. Sick of seeing it in my newspaper. They need to do some writing drills.
the Obama administration canceled the Nevada events set for next month after Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, backed by casino and business interests, said it would frighten away tourists and “unacceptably harm’’ the region’s battered economy.
AmaZing what certain kind$ of money and intere$t$ can do, huh?
I guess Vegas is safe.
The federal government is also considering whether to scale back next year’s National Level Exercise, the annual drill that for the past decade has been a cornerstone of the nation’s efforts to prepare for a catastrophic terrorist attack or natural disaster.
The 2011 exercise was envisioned by states as a five-day test in the Midwest for a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency may instead limit the event to three days and test for a milder earthquake, state and federal officials said.
Someone warming up a HAARP for the unruly and angry American people?
The decisions are playing into a quiet debate about the future of the large-scale national exercises. Convinced that the drills are the best way to determine whether the nation is prepared for a disaster, some emergency planners and state officials say they fear that as the federal government cuts costs, it may dumb down the tests so participants will pass them more easily.
Shying from the toughest problems, they say, risks repeating the mistakes that were made after Hurricane Katrina....
In that case NOTHING LEARNED given what is occurring in the Gulf today.
Or cui bono?
Now they will have to have all the drills a taxpayer can afford to borrow.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the drills have grown into unrealistic, costly, and overscripted productions, Napolitano has said, an “elaborate game.’’
SHE KNOWS 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
Since 2005, FEMA has spent $218 million on national exercises, testing scenarios that include an outbreak of the pneumonic plague, chemical attacks, and dirty bombs.
After this year’s nuclear scenario, which was to involve a 10-kiloton bomb, next year’s would be the first to posit a natural disaster instead of a terrorist attack.
The Obama White House is also revisiting the broad homeland security system that President Bush established in a series of directives in 2003, seeking to clear up confusion about who is in charge of managing the nation’s preparedness and how to track progress.
Everything kind of falls into place, doesn't it?
That review, however, has created wide uncertainty about the administration’s plans within the ranks at FEMA, the Pentagon, and state emergency agencies, several officials said....
Even more now?
Some emergency planners at the state level and across federal agencies, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of antagonizing senior officials, said they are concerned that the White House might be easing off the effort.
“The fact that the central United States could face a catastrophic earthquake soon is scary enough, but the fact that FEMA and [the Department of Homeland Security] appear overwhelmed by even doing an exercise on this scenario is very disturbing,’’ said a federal official who has worked on the 2011 effort.
It's ALMOST EERIE if SOMETHING HAPPENS, isn't it?
Another coincidence?
“The effort is regressing, not progressing,’’ said another US official familiar with homeland defense planning, saying some emergency managers expect that the White House may decide to make the exercises simpler, smaller and less frequent.
FEMA administrator Craig Fugate acknowledged that the administration has concerns about whether the large-scale exercises need revamping, but said officials are committed to other kinds of drills, particularly those conducted without notice.
While the administration is “in lockstep in our continued commitment’’ to NLEs, he said, “our exercises have to go beyond the large-scale, preplanned events. We have to do a lot more exercises on a day-to-day basis.’’
If you hear a big boom....
National-level exercises date to 2000, when Congress mandated them to test top government officials’ responses to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush made the national live exercises the centerpiece of a series of “full-scale, full-system tests’’ involving 15 scenarios and a constellation of federal, military, state and local agencies.
After Hurricane Katrina, Bush overhauled the program again, increasing the number of exercises, adding a focus on natural disasters and demanding more rigorous follow-up.
And five years later... sigh.
Still, the program drew complaints of “exercise fatigue’’ from many state officials, including Napolitano, then the governor of Arizona.
Yeah, still (sigh, clink) the STATE OFFICIALS had "EXERCISE FATIGUE" because THEY KNOW (and their budgets are in the red).
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Given what has been going on in the Gulf, and what may occur if you believe in certain things (may be the convincing factor, not sure yet).
