[Nettime-bold] yo... this is truly weird... Bush Shadow government...

["Paul D. Miller" <anansi1@earthlink.net>]

well... if the top people in the country haven't heard of Bush's 
"Shadow Government" what does that mean? Check out the middle section 
of this article where Senate Majority leader Daschle says he never 
heard any plans of about the "shadow government." Can anyone say 
"right wing putsch?" Given the Enron situation and the fact that 
there has been the creation of a "MInistry of Dis-Information" what 
next? Room  101 straight out of 1984
Paul



Ridge Refuses to Testify to Senate

March 4, 2002

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS




Filed at 4:48 p.m. ET



WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland security chief Tom Ridge is
turning down a bipartisan request from a Senate committee
that he testify, his spokeswoman said Monday, the latest
White House-Congress difference over the war on terror.

The two top members of the Senate Appropriations Committee
-- Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and senior Republican
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska -- wrote to Ridge on Monday
asking that he appear before their panel.

Ridge coordinates the government's anti-terrorism effort at
home, though the programs themselves are carried out by
dozens of other agencies. Appropriations controls much
federal spending, including the $38 billion -- double this
year's total -- that President Bush has proposed for next
year's domestic security programs.

``Your views and insights on the policies necessary to meet
these objectives are critical to the committee and the
nation,'' the senators wrote.

Ridge spokeswoman Susan Neely said he would not testify
because he is an adviser to the president, not a
Senate-confirmed head of an agency that implements policy.

``Assistants to the president work for the president,''
Neely said. ``And the president has spoken his
recommendations to the Senate and House'' in the budget he
sent Congress last month, she said.

Byrd spokesman Tom Gavin had no comment on Ridge's refusal
until the committee receives the homeland security
director's formal response. Asked if Byrd would compel
Ridge's appearance through a subpoena, Gavin said Byrd has
not discussed that possibility.

Republican Stevens' signature on the Appropriations
Committee letter makes this appear to be a dispute between
the executive and legislative branches over the release of
information, not a partisan conflict.

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and
other Democrats asked questions about Bush administration
plans for continuing the conflict in Afghanistan. That
prompted some Republicans to accuse Democrats of
politicizing the war, while Democrats said they merely
wanted details.

Daschle and other lawmakers also have complained they knew
nothing about federal officials who have been working
secretly outside Washington since Sept. 11 as a contingency
government to guarantee continuity in case of a devastating
attack on Washington. The ``shadow government'' was
revealed last week by The Washington Post, and a GOP
lawmaker criticized the secrecy surrounding it on Monday.

``We have to have some awareness of this because, as I
recall, we are number three in succession here and that
might be of interest to them,'' said Sen. Chuck Hagel,
R-Neb., referring to succession to the presidency.

In another dispute, Congress' General Accounting Office has
sued Vice President Dick Cheney to learn the names of
business leaders who met with the White House energy task
force.

Neely said Ridge has repeatedly met privately with
lawmakers to discuss domestic security, including recent
separate sessions with GOP and Democratic senators.

Presidents often decline to let White House staff testify
to Congress, citing past precedent, but there have been
numerous recent exceptions to that practice.

Byrd and Stevens gave Ridge the choice of testifying on
April 9, 10 or 11.

^------

On the Net: Homeland Security:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/

Senate Appropriations Committee:
http://appropriations.senate.gov/

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Ridge.html?ex=1016 
306912&ei=1&en=3a1d4a1f8f20c83a



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