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Documents disclose 'shadow government'
Information Liberation
© 2006
Indicate U.S. far advanced in constructing
bureaucracy united with Mexico, Canada
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," he claims,
"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,"
he said, "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.
Corsi added that 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," Corsi
claims. "Where is Congress, asleep at the
wheel?"
The SPP organizational chart Corsi obtained
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?"
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