Information on this anyone?

[Buttercup McToots]

Soooo?
Whats this all about?



BACK TO THE BUNKER

By William M. Arkin
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page B01

On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The exercise is the latest manifestation of an obsession with government survival that has been a hallmark of the Bush administration since 9/11, a focus of enormous and often absurd time, money and effort that has come to echo the worst follies of the Cold War. The vast secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing, remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions continue undisrupted should a terrorist's nuclear bomb go off in downtown Washington.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201410.html:hide:

[PATRICK]

1. Discipline for

the coup government servitors during a period of chaos and doubt. An exercise timed like the 9/11 practices? Has that date any historic significance or are there any alerts out there in other nations? The wonderful atmosphere of justified unjustifiable fear.

And where does the shadow government go to? The deserted DC desks?

[izzie]

2. I read some thing about that a few days ago. Odd

Guessed it made me think of a good old beer hall meeting as I am sure they are Republicans. Maybe they will raise the flag and sing a few songs? It made me feel creepy. In the thing I read it said they thought it up after 911:grouphug:

[bananas]

3. here's the thread from a few days ago

speculation is all.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2323572

[tanyev]

4. Shades of Operation Vigilant Guardian?

Sounds like a good day to stay close to home.