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Obama’s
DHS seizing local power
Administration
building 'de facto domestic military'
NEW
YORK – The Department of Homeland Security under President Obama is
demonstrating troubling signs the agency is shifting the balance of
power away from local and state municipalities toward a centralized
federal authority, charges a recently released book.
In
“Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama from
Office,” New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda
J. Elliott document the DHS has likely violated the Posse Comitatus
Act.
The
law expressly forbids direct participation by the military in a
“search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity.”
The
authors further cite evidence the DHS is building a de facto domestic
military, with the purchase of military-grade equipment and the
execution of military-style training exercises.
Aaron
Klein’s “Impeachable Offenses: The Case to Remove Barack Obama
from Office” is available now, autographed, at WND’s Superstore
Perhaps
the DHS is the realization of Obama’s call for a civilian national
security force, warn Klein and Elliott.
In
his July 2, 2008, “New Era of Service” address delivered at the
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, presidential candidate
Obama said: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in
order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. …
We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just
as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”
Obama’s
pre-address prepared remarks delivered to the news media did not
include the passage.
DHS
on steroids
“Impeachable
Offenses” relates Obama revised President Bill Clinton’s 1992
Defense Department Directive 1404.10, Emergency-Essential (E-E) DoD
U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees.
The
prior directive was rescinded. The new directive issued Jan. 23,
2009, states that a Civilian Expeditionary Workforce “shall be
organized, trained, cleared, equipped and ready to deploy in support
of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency
operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of
order; drug interdiction; and stability operations.”
Klein
and Elliott dedicate a sizable portion of a chapter to the
Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal
Prevention and Response program, or VIPR.
A
2007 act authorized the TSA to use any DHS asset for its VIPR teams,
including federal air marshals, transportation security officers,
surface transportation security inspectors, canine detection teams,
explosives detection specialists, behavior detection officers and
federal, state and local law enforcement officers. As an extension of
the TSA, VIPR teams may be found screening passengers, looking for
suspicious behavior and acting as a “visible deterrent for
potential terrorist acts.
While
VIPR began under President Bush, the drills were expanded
exponentially, and possibly illegally, under Obama, “Impeachable
Offenses” charges.
How
many VIPR teams are there? No one knows for sure. An August 2012
report claims there were 37 VIPR teams. This is up from the 15
existing plus 12 anticipated new teams reported eight months earlier.
By
September 2008, the VIPR operations were becoming more grandiose. The
Amtrak Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations, Amtrak
Police, TSA personnel and officers from approximately 100 commuter
rail, state and local police agencies “mobilized” for the
“largest joint, simultaneous Northeast rail security operation of
its kind, involving 150 railway stations between Fredericksburg,
Virginia, and Essex Junction, Vermont.”
The
multi-force security “surge” returned in September 2009 for
Operation ALERTS – Allied Law Enforcement for Rail and Transit
Security – to repeat the operation…
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