Nobody likes a secret government..We need to attack on this

subject. The Bush* administration is the most secretive in history and we need to bring this subject up more. People want to feel involved and that America is an open government run by the people. This is a legitimate line of attack that causes unease in Republican circles. We just can't go over the top and start accusing them of being fascists even if it is true. People will tune you out if you go to far. Just simple things like the release of Presidential papers as required by Congressional Law, Cheney's energy meetings, holding Americans without right to a lawyer or speedy trial or in fact any rights of Americans. Or the "innocent until proved guilty" rule that America used to live by.

was a report of some folks challenging a 'secret law' about how they screen airline passengers. You guessed it-Ashcroft wants to hold the proceedings in secret.
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No Democrats were invited to survive Chimpageddon...

Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret

After Attacks, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival

By Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 1, 2002; Page A01

President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.

Execution of the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan" resulted not from the Cold War threat of intercontinental missiles, the scenario rehearsed for decades, but from heightened fears that the al Qaeda terrorist network might somehow obtain a portable nuclear weapon, according to three officials with firsthand knowledge. U.S. intelligence has no specific knowledge of such a weapon, they said, but the risk is thought great enough to justify the shadow government's disruption and expense.

Deployed "on the fly" in the first hours of turmoil on Sept. 11, one participant said, the shadow government has evolved into an indefinite precaution. For that reason, the high-ranking officials representing their departments have begun rotating in and out of the assignment at one of two fortified locations along the East Coast. Rotation is among several changes made in late October or early November, sources said, to the standing directive Bush inherited from a line of presidents reaching back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Officials who are activated for what some of them call "bunker duty" live and work underground 24 hours a day, away from their families. As it settles in for the long haul, the shadow government has sent home most of the first wave of deployed personnel, replacing them most commonly at 90-day intervals.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A20584-2002Feb28¬Found=true

Here's what Tom Daschle had to say about the Secret Government plan:

In television interviews on Sunday, the leading congressional Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, confirmed that neither he nor any other congressional leader had been consulted about the plan. Asked whether this constituted a secret government, not just potentially in the future, but in actuality today, he replied, “I don’t know. I don’t know what their role is, what their current authority is, because we haven’t been informed. You’d think one person in Congress would know, and whether a congressional and judicial component is included.”

SOURCE:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/WSW204A.html

and his very low number of press conferences. With all that has gone on during his term, what's his excuse for hiding from American citizens?