Homeland insecurity

This is from a diary posted today on Daily Kos. It is just one more dangerous warning, and so I want to repost sections of it here, and direct you to read the rest of it.

It is time to watch and pay attention.

In Friday's Portland Oregonian, there was an item about Representative Peter DeFazio (D,OR) being denied access to White House plans concerning the continuity of the U.S Government after a terrorist attack contained in The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-51/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20). Why is this of interest? Why would Representative DeFazio want to see these plans?

Because Representative DeFazio is a member of U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security.

The diary goes on to mention that even Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar from the American Enterprise Institute (Bruce Fein is also a member) cannot understand why a member of the Homeland Security Commitee - with clearance - would be denied his right to view these documents.

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.

As for DeFazio, even he is now becoming suspicious (perhaps he will become one of the three necessary co-signers to move impeachment forward?)

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.