Posted on 09/26/2006 11:10:53 PM PDT by mukraker
Government documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.
The documents, a total of about 1,000 pages, are among the first to be released to Corsi through his FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, which describes itself as an initiative "to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation."
"The documents clearly reveal that SPP, working within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is far advanced in putting together a new regional infrastructure, creating a 'shadow' trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without congressional oversight or public disclosure," Corsi said.
Among the initial discoveries, said Corsi, is the existence of an internal Intranet website that never has been revealed to Congress or the public.
"This private internal website undoubtedly contains a wealth of documentation that the FOIA request has so far intentionally excluded."
Corsi told WND the documents reveal hundreds of internal meetings, memoranda of understanding and other referenced agreements that have not been disclosed.
"We have here the beginnings of a whitewash in which SPP evidently thinks the public will be hoodwinked by a 'Myths vs. Facts' document posted for public relations purposes on their public website."
Among the documents is an organizational chart accompanied by a listing of trilateral Mexican, Canadian and U.S. administrative officers who report on multiple cabinet level "working groups."
The government watchdog Judicial Watch announced today it has received some of the same documents, including the organizational chart, which can be seen in this pdf file, on page seven.
"There is no specific authorization for this massive administrative-branch integration with Mexico and Canada other than what amounts to a press conference jointly issued by President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's then-Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 23, 2005, at the end of their summit in Waco, Texas," Corsi said.
"Even the "Myth vs. Facts" blurb on the SPP.gov website admits the SPP is neither a treaty nor a law."
"The Bush administration is trying to create the infrastructure of a new regional North American government in stealth fashion, under the radar and out of public view. Where is Congress, asleep at the wheel?"
The SPP organizational chart shows 13 working groups covering a wide range of public policy issues, including Manufactured Goods; Energy, Food & Agriculture; Rules of Origin' Health; E-Commerce; Transportation; Environment; Financial Services; Business Facilitation; External Threats to North America; Streamlined & Secured Shared Borders; and Prevention/Response within North America.
U.S. administrative-branch officers participating in these working groups are drawn from the U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The released documents affirm that counterparts from official governmental agencies in Mexico and Canada are combined with the U.S. administrative branch to form new trilateral "working groups" that actively rewrite U.S. administrative law to "harmonize" or "integrate" with administrative law in Mexico and Canada.
"What we have here amounts to an administrative coup d'etat," Corsi told WND. "Where does the Bush administration get the congressional authorization to invite two foreign nations to the table to rewrite U.S. law?"
Corsi was just on Coast to Coast with George Noory! Not 10 minutes ago!
Interstate 69 is a coming!
Trupolitik, hedgetrimmer, ping (if you actually read this).
(North America Trade Route) The North American trade corridors are bi- or tri-national channels for which various cross-border interests have grouped together in order to develop or consolidate the infrastructures. The North American corridors are considered multimodal in the sense that they bring into play different modes of transport in succession.
We have a 'corridor' now from the Pacfic to the Gulf of Mexico which was never on a ballot.
We'll all have Canada's health care system. No more illegal aliens from Mexico, because they'll be free to cross the border - and vote.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who erroneously believe they are free.
And, have you read the 1000 page document?
Gulp!
Considering as how the losing Commie candidate for president in Mexico is also building a shadow government, it is going to be really confusing for the average peon in Mexico to figure out which shadow government to take orders from.
Resulting in even more heading north where there is only one shadow government to worry about.
Excuse the semi-frivilous comment. I too am seriously concerned about this. Unfortunately I'm afraid that this is more than mere tin hat conspiracy stuff. Perhaps the usual tin-hatters are exaggerating a bit; but there are too many powerful people who DO want something like this to come together, and already American Soverignty is hanging by a thread due to other international forces.
Why all the hoopla now when it's been building up for years? /sarcasm
I hope I didn't kill your thread.
Thought you might like this one.
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