Posted on 07/26/2006 3:54:18 AM PDT by Trupolitik
After missing a deadline, the U.S. Department of Commerce finally has granted a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain complete disclosure of a congressionally unauthorized plan to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that critics say could lead to a EU-style alliance in North America.
The plan is being implemented through an office within the Department of Commerce called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," under the direction of Geri Word, who is listed as working in the agency's North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, office.
As WorldNetDaily previously reported, the White House has established executive branch working groups documented on the Commerce website SPP.gov. The Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP, was issued as a joint press statement by President Bush, Mexican President Vincente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
Granting of the FOIA request comes after the Commerce Department missed a statutory requirement to respond within 20 businesses days.
The request was filed by author Jerome R. Corsi on June 19.
Corsi said the Commerce Department's compliance with the request is a major breakthrough.
"We're now going to get the documentary evidence to determine if the working groups in SPP.gov are creating new memoranda of understanding and trilateral agreements that under our Constitution should more appropriately be submitted to Congress as new treaties or laws," he said.
Corsi added that if this turns out to be the case, "we're going to present that evidence to the American people and let them make up their own minds."
Freedom of Information Act Officer Linda Bell mailed the "first interim response" yesterday and promises more response as batches of documents are processed, according to Brenda Dolan, a departmental officer.
Robert McGuire, attorney for Corsi, e-mailed Commerce July17, notifying the agency of the statutory violation in its failure to respond. He then received an e-mail from Dolan indicating the request was being processed. But McGuire asserted the response was unacceptable, saying the department "skipped a deadline required by law."
Has Medved an advanced degree from the Agriculture Department's School for The Bureacrat? (Yes, there is such school, the legacy of Woodrow Wilson's major domo socilaist Colonel Edward House.)
Yeah, but its better to give them a light rather than curse their darkness
Well we had one drive by, hit and run Freeper with his black helicopter. Post #9. So hope springs eternal. lol
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ok, I have everyone who has requested to be added so far. I will check back later today to see who else wants to be added to the PING list. :-)
Any international agreements concerning trade or national security need to go through congress for an up or down vote.
I don't know what's going on here but it smells. I do not trust the federal bureaucracy, and I sure don't trust any international bureaucracy populated by socialists and UN NGOs.
Jerome Corsi was on Coast to Coast a few nights ago (Mon-Tues broadcast) and laid it all out. Corsi was on for hours along with Jim Gilchrist of the MinuteMen
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Thnaks for posting. BTTT.
haha! He gets around! I heard him on Israel National Radio a couple of weeks ago!
It is a REALLY good idea to be on Coast to Coast though. I have several family members that were/are truckers and they all listened to it. This issue DOES really effect them with whole NASCO Corridor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1661091/posts
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How long is it between John Kerry agreeing to release his full record, and actually doing it?
or Sean Hannity for that matter. I suppose all grass roots movements take time. thanks for the info.
You obviously can choose--and have the right to choose--who to put on your list, though.
Put me on the list as well.
No worries bud. As long as people arent attacking me/us with ad hominem attacks, I am not afraid of differing opinions. One way or another the freemarketplace of ideas will smelt out the truth. ;-) You are added.
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