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2010-06-02 Home Front: WoT

Report: DOJ Not Fully Prepared' For WMDs

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Posted by tipper 2010-06-02 09:13|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 And thus we see the end of the current administration.

Exactly why should the Justice Dept. be "fully prepared" for a WMD? Aside from drafting the memo renaming the DOD to the Dept. of War, the DOJ's full preparations should end somewhere around evacuating buildings similar to a tornado drill.

I guess if you're a lawyer every problem is legal. This, from the party of Jackson.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-06-02 09:21|| 2010-06-02 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep. When all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. That is a fundamental flaw of the legal caste. They define everything from their perspective as they were the source of all knowledge and experience. They long last grasp that they are simply another element or tool of a culture that has an appropriate place and use.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-02 09:52|| 2010-06-02 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 My thoughts exactly. DOJ will spend the first days after a WMD attack blaming some US entity for not stopping it, then move to charging the entities that tried to stop it for going outside the law. And what frightens me even more from this report is that the FBI, yup the one and the same, is the most prepared agency. holy crap folks! We are doomed, can you remember the,"We need offices and computers" issue after 9/11? I can only pray that the OGA's kill and capture before they get close to our shores and long before DOJ and the FBI get to play in it. And as a matter of fact YES I am bitter about DOJ and their anti-American agenda.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-06-02 10:02|| 2010-06-02 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 The Democrats: A party of the Lawyers, by the Lawyers, and for the Lawyers.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-06-02 10:45|| 2010-06-02 10:45|| Front Page Top

#5 This is how we will lose our freedoms in the US.

They will be lawyered out of existance.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-06-02 12:24|| 2010-06-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 "the first thing we do..."

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-02 19:28|| 2010-06-02 19:28|| Front Page Top

#7 "the first thing we do..."

...or at least shoot them a little bit.

The reason the DOJ needs to be involved in the response to a WMD attack is you want to immediately file a restraining order to keep the perps from doing it again. You will also want to sue some corporations - hopefully some with deep pockets - to deflect any blame from the Administration. Congress can handle any show trials and hearings on their own.

Posted by SteveS 2010-06-02 20:53|| 2010-06-02 20:53|| Front Page Top

#8 "DOJ will spend the first days after a WMD attack blaming ~~some US entity~~ Bush for not stopping it"

FTFY, Pan.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-02 21:00|| 2010-06-02 21:00|| Front Page Top

#9 heh - I was hoping someone would catch on - little did I suspect the nefarious SteveS (AOS) was still trolling. My hat is off to you, sir

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-02 21:05|| 2010-06-02 21:05|| Front Page Top

#10 On a less snarky note, the reason DOJ is supposed to be involved in the event of a WMD attack is to keep civil order going as much as possible.

While NORTHCOM is up and running now, it's mission is military defense. The Constitution still calls for civilian government in emergencies. WMD attacks will cross city and often state boundaries in their effects, hence the role of the feds if need be. Even the NYC area's regional ops center is still more in the organizing stage than a mature reality and other regions are less far along. That leaves the feds or martial law as options ...

Posted by lotp 2010-06-02 21:41|| 2010-06-02 21:41|| Front Page Top

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