What does it mean ??????

[justjohn]

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 26, 2008

Executive Order: Continuing Certain Restrictions with Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I further find that, as we deal with that threat through multilateral diplomacy, it is necessary to continue certain restrictions with respect to North Korea that would otherwise be lifted pursuant to a forthcoming proclamation that will terminate the exercise of authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1 et seq.) (TWEA) with respect to North Korea.

Accordingly, I hereby order:

Section 1. Except to the extent provided in statutes or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, the following are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:

all property and interests in property of North Korea or a North Korean national that, pursuant to the President's authorities under the TWEA, the exercise of which has been continued in accordance with section 101(b) of Public Law 95-223 (91 Stat. 1625; 50 U.S.C. App. 5(b) note), were blocked as of June 16, 2000, and remained blocked immediately prior to the date of this order.

Sec. 2. Except to the extent provided in statutes or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, United States persons may not register a vessel in North Korea, obtain authorization for a vessel to fly the North Korean flag, or own, lease, operate, or insure any vessel flagged by North Korea.

Sec. 3. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 4. For the purposes of this order:

(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;

(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).

Sec. 7. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 26, 2008.

[Atlantis5]

Very far reaching exscutive order!

Under section 1} indicates all accounts under US jurisdiction and/or control, have been frozen and as such, under the direction of any presidential order as to confiscation as to his {President} pleasure.

Charles

[justjohn]

Jun 29, 2008 5:40:56 GMT -7 Atlantis5 said:

Very far reaching exscutive order!

Under section 1} indicates all accounts under US jurisdiction and/or control, have been frozen and as such, under the direction of any presidential order as to confiscation as to his {President} pleasure.

Charles

Charles,

Here is an analysis I think is dreadful.

The main point of it, I think, is here:

"But, to the most concerning element of the American President's declaration of a State of Emergency lies in the extraordinary powers granted to him, and which include his ability to bypass the US Congress to launch immediate attacks upon Iran and any Nation that comes to their defense.

"Even more ominously, for the American people, is that under this new State of Emergency, President Bush is able to suspend all civil liberties and institute martial law over his citizens, even to the extent of suspending the upcoming elections should he declare it to be in his Nations best interest. "

It's a point well taken.

[Atlantis5]

Jun 29, 2008 5:47:45 GMT -7 @justjohn said:

Jun 29, 2008 5:40:56 GMT -7 Atlantis5 said:

Very far reaching exscutive order!

Under section 1} indicates all accounts under US jurisdiction and/or control, have been frozen and as such, under the direction of any presidential order as to confiscation as to his {President} pleasure.

Charles

Charles,

Here is an analysis I think is dreadful.

The main point of it, I think, is here:

"But, to the most concerning element of the American President's declaration of a State of Emergency lies in the extraordinary powers granted to him, and which include his ability to bypass the US Congress to launch immediate attacks upon Iran and any Nation that comes to their defense.

"Even more ominously, for the American people, is that under this new State of Emergency, President Bush is able to suspend all civil liberties and institute martial law over his citizens, even to the extent of suspending the upcoming elections should he declare it to be in his Nations best interest. "

It's a point well taken.

Yes J.J.

Most frightening very much indeed! Are you aware of the American foreign policy? With this in couple, it means in concept if not in actual, world domination to that extent of his power at hand.

There is one concept though I would stand to wonder, and that is the prospect of impeachment?

Charles

[Atlantis5]

Jun 29, 2008 9:42:32 GMT -7 uncltim said:

Its important to realize that the US is and has been "At war" with N.Korea for decades. We are currently under a cease fire agreement. Lots of killings, intimidation, an tunneling goes on even today. I am very familiar with this situation.

As far as bushes Intent today, It is probably groundwork for martial law if need be. This election will be contested no matter happens.

Tim

As a guest in your fine country, I am prevented from indulging in indigenous politics. But, you mention of contested election results, in what regard would you say would be this?

Of martial law? Would this be a possibility in the near future? With martial law, to what extent would this to be? What my question entails; would people of non-citizenship be arrested, detained in bird cage compounds as of the Japan people of the war? Has America, the land of dreams to us come to this?

Charles

[Jaga]

Jun 29, 2008 5:47:45 GMT -7 @justjohn said:

"But, to the most concerning element of the American President's declaration of a State of Emergency lies in the extraordinary powers granted to him, and which include his ability to bypass the US Congress to launch immediate attacks upon Iran and any Nation that comes to their defense.

"Even more ominously, for the American people, is that under this new State of Emergency, President Bush is able to suspend all civil liberties and institute martial law over his citizens, even to the extent of suspending the upcoming elections should he declare it to be in his Nations best interest. "

It's a point well taken.

While the Bush administration has been emphasizing tough diplomacy with Iran, it’s also been escalating covert U.S. military actions against the country. That’s according to investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who reveals the details in a new article for the New Yorker magazine, titled “Preparing the Battlefield.” He joins us now.

here is about secret operations against Iran which are already in place. Why? Is it legal and justified???

www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/29/late-edition-sy-hersh-says-attacks-on-iran-happening-now/

Seymour Hersh has been writing about the Bush administration’s aggressive stance against Iran for years now. His latest article for The New Yorker, “Preparing the Battlefield“, Hersh claims that the Bush administration has been carrying out clandestine operations in Iran for some time now, with the funding and cooperation of the Democratic leadership in Congress.

HERSH: I think this is another example of putting an awful lot of pressure on the Iranian government. There’s been a dramatic increase in kinetic events and chaos inside of Iran. Almost every other day, there’s another story in the Iranian press — I write about this in the article, too — about things blowing up, et cetera, et cetera. It looks like things are falling apart, a little bit. And the central government certainly has more trouble.

And I think the goal of this operation, this incredible operation, with all this money — and, by the way, it’s the Democrats in Congress who basically looked the other way and said, take the money and run. They did not stop this money, the leadership that I’m talking about, the Democratic leadership.

So, basically, my guess is that — I don’t think we can safely say that any military action is off the table, no matter what happens. And that’s — as I say, I wish I’m going to be wrong about all that, but this is really, sort of, an amazing development.

CROWLEY: Absolutely. I want to read a graph out of your book because it goes to the oversight of the Democrats you just mentioned. [snip] “‘The oversight process has not kept pace — it’s been co-opted by the administration,’ the person familiar with the contents of the findings said. ‘The process is broken and this is dangerous stuff we’re authorizing.’”

Tell me, first, what your sources say is so dangerous about this?

HERSH: The president has to give a finding on covert action, any action that’s covert. In other words, when CIA goes in some place, if they get caught, there could be spies.

So he has to tell the Congress about it. And the military simply is — the president, since 9/11, has decided anything we do militarily, we don’t have to tell anybody in Congress about.

[rdywenur]

So what is this ...a bunch of garbage that Bush wrote up for himself to by pass Congress and declare himself "God" and the one and only voice of the American people. This is scarry sh--!!!

[Atlantis5]

Jun 29, 2008 9:42:32 GMT -7 uncltim said:

Its important to realize that the US is and has been "At war" with N.Korea for decades. We are currently under a cease fire agreement. Lots of killings, intimidation, an tunneling goes on even today. I am very familiar with this situation.

As far as bushes Intent today, It is probably groundwork for martial law if need be. This election will be contested no matter happens.

Tim

Tim

For why or what would do you believe, be the foundation of reason for a martial law to be in-acted. For in as-much to North Korea, there is no threat direct or implied, from that country to the national sovereignty of the USA for emergency presidential powers to be exercised.

What would be your estimation? Would this be an associated implied threat to South Korea of tunneling? In this respect, would this bring into force, diplomatic agreements between the USA and of South Korea?

Charles

[Jaga]

CIA agent was fired when he stated that Iraq and Iran do not have WMD!

here is more:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001940.html?hpid=sec-nation

Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 1, 2008; A02



A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb.

The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time.

The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.

The consensus view on Iran's nuclear program shifted dramatically last December with the release of a landmark intelligence report that concluded that Iran halted work on nuclear weapons design in 2003. The publication of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran undermined the CIA's rationale for censoring the former officer's lawsuit, said his attorney, Roy Krieger.

"On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," Krieger said in an interview.

In court documents and in statements by his attorney, the former officer contends that his 22-year CIA career collapsed after he questioned CIA doctrine about the nuclear programs of Iraq and Iran. As a native of the Middle East and a fluent speaker of both Farsi and Arabic, he had been assigned undercover work in the Persian Gulf region, where he successfully recruited an informant with access to

sensitive information about Iran's nuclear program, Krieger said.

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