Plant het Beleid van Bush KrijgsWet?

De Ontkende Toegang van het congreslid DeFazio tot de Documenten van de Overheid

Door David Gutierrez

Het beleid van Bush schokte wetgevers en analisten twee maanden geleden toen het een lid van de toestemming van het Comité van de Veiligheid van het Geboorteland van het Huis ontkende om geclassificeerde plannen te onderzoeken voor het handhaven van het functioneren van de overheid in het geval van een belangrijke natuurramp of terroristenaanval.

Om zorgen dat te verminderen het Witte Huis plannen voor krijgswet, Representatieve Peter DeFazio heeft, (D-OF), die wordt gevraagd om het plan voor overheidscontinuïteit te zien. As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio has the required security clearance to view such a plan. In the past, he has entered what is known as a “bubble room” to view classified documents, and his requests have never been denied.

But in a break with tradition, DeFazio’s request, although initially approved, was later rejected. The congressman has not been informed who made the decision about his request, nor about the reason for it.

“We do not comment … on the process that this access entails,” said White House spokesperson Trey Bohn. “It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly classified.”

“I just can’t believe that 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 said. “I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee.”

“Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right,” he said.

Political scientist Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, referred to the decision as “inexplicable,” saying he could not think of “one good reason” for it.

“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.

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