{"id":15180,"date":"2023-07-19T00:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2023-07-19T00:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:40:24","slug":"newly-unearthed-information-about-the-presidential-football-reveals-details-of-emergency-planning-at-the-highest-levels-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=15180","title":{"rendered":"Newly Unearthed Information About the Presidential \u201cFootball\u201d Reveals Details of Emergency Planning at the Highest Levels of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declassified photo of \u201cNuclear Football\u201d in transit during the George W. Bush Administration<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the United States continues its controlled descent into madness under the leadership of President Joe Biden, newly unearthed information about past executive-level contingency powers provides a deeper understanding of what Americans could expect in the event of a national emergency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">William Burr, a senior analyst at the nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/briefing-book\/nuclear-vault\/2023-07-18\/presidential-football-eisenhower-george-w-bush\"><span class=\"s2\">National Security Archive<\/span><\/a>, today published a report that explores the previously unknown documentation \u2014 providing multiple clues about the contents of the famed presidential \u201cFootball\u201d \u2014 that for decades has remained hidden away from the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Burr\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/briefing-book\/nuclear-vault\/2023-07-18\/presidential-nuclear-football-eisenhower-george-w-bush\"><span class=\"s2\">brief<\/span><\/a>\u00a0further explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSince the late 1950s, U.S. military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case known variously as the \u2018satchel,\u2019 the \u2018black bag,\u2019 the \u2019emergency actions pouch,\u2019 and, as it is perhaps best known, the \u2018Football.\u2019 Epitomizing presidential control of nuclear weapons, the Football and the military aides who carry it enable the President to make decisions about the use of nuclear weapons in the event of a sudden military crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The declassified documentation provides a rare glimpse into the details of executive orders known as Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) through communications from numerous high-level government officials, including Edward A. McDermott, who served as Deputy Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization throughout the 1960s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to McDermott, the purpose of the documents held safely in the Football was \u201cto clothe the President with formal emergency powers,\u201d even though at least some were of \u201cdoubtful legality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among the contingency powers with questionable legality were the suspension of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habeas_corpus\"><span class=\"s2\">habeas corpus<\/span><\/a>, the declaration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojp.gov\/ncjrs\/virtual-library\/abstracts\/martial-law-times-civil-disorder#:~:text=4%20pages,to%20make%20and%20enforce%20laws.\"><span class=\"s2\">martial law<\/span><\/a>, and the authorization of mass arrests and even arbitrary detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The documents illustrate a decades-long debate between White House officials who were \u201cworried about the status of the PEADs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among those whose communications are now public are former National Security Advisor<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Zbigniew-Brzezinski\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0Zbigniew Brzezinski<\/span><\/a>, Reagan\u2019s NSA Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Eldridge_Odom\"><span class=\"s2\">William Odom<\/span><\/a>, and even President Carter\u2019s second cousin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Carter\"><span class=\"s2\">Hugh Carter, Jr<\/span><\/a>., who expressed that the PEADs were \u201cobsolete given the total devastation which could be expected from a thermonuclear attack on the US.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The many concerns among White House officials seemingly led FEMA in 1980 to turn over updated documents to the White House to be included in the new and improved Football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But while much light has now been shed on the nature of the ultra-secret emergency planning in previous decades, it remains unknown if the many concerns about constitutional legality were ever completely resolved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With President Biden\u2019s deteriorating mental capacity on full display while his administration pushes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/06\/test-launch-russian-nuclear-torpedo-may-be-imminent\/\"><span class=\"s2\">America ever closer to the brink of nuclear conflict<\/span><\/a>, it becomes a disturbingly reasonable possibility that plans from the Football could be put into action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And considering news that President Trump may soon be put behind bars, all bets are off for the future of the United States Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/07\/newly-unearthed-information-about-presidential-football-reveals-details\/\">Newly Unearthed Information About the Presidential \u201cFootball\u201d Reveals Details of Emergency Planning at the Highest Levels of Government<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declassified photo of \u201cNuclear Football\u201d in transit during the George W. 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