Why is FEMA Trying to Cover Up NLE 10?
April 20th, 2010Search and find: National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10)
Via: Public Intelligence:
Public Intelligence has received a request from FEMA to remove a “For Official Use Only” document regarding the National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10), which was scheduled for this coming May. The exercise was to be based on National Planning Scenario 1 which simulates a nuclear detonation in a U.S. city. However, recent political pressure has led to the exercise being “scaled back” according to the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and a variety of other publications. At the behest of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the exercise’s Nevada events have reportedly been canceled and the FEMA website now shows no mention of NLE 10.
On top of this, the Obama administration has recently been emphasizing the threat of a domestic nuclear attack. President Obama’s remarks at the Nuclear Security Summit on April 13, 2010 emphasize that the threat of terrorists using nuclear weapons inside of major metropolitan cities is one of the “greatest threats” that the world faces:
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history — the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations. Just the smallest amount of plutonium — about the size of an apple — could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Terrorist networks such as al Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon, and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it. Were they to do so, it would be a catastrophe for the world — causing extraordinary loss of life, and striking a major blow to global peace and stability.
In short, it is increasingly clear that the danger of nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global security — to our collective security.
NLE 10 concerned itself with exactly this scenario: the detonation of a nuclear device inside of a U.S. city. Las Vegas was to be the epicenter of this hypothetical attack and, if the exercise utilized the same circumstances as National Planning Scenario 1, it would have involved “hundreds of thousands” of casualties, more than 300,000 refugees and ultimately more than 1 million displaced persons.
The unpopularity of such a scenario, regardless of its security benefits, is obvious. What is strange is the attempt that is now being made by FEMA to eliminate references to the exercises and remove from circulation a document that has played an important role in drawing attention to the exercise. As the state of NLE 10 is unclear at the moment, it is difficult to say whether the request is truly motivated by security or whether there is a more dubious intention.
Research Credit: ofgoatsandmen, j crash
Hopefully, FEMA is trying to hide the NLE 10 memo, because it has realized in its heart of hearts, that as an organization, it is so forking stupid, such a waste of taxpayer dollars, and sheesh! Maybe the numbnuts of this organization are FINALLY getting that the people of this world don’t what they do to us in a catastrophe. Like, uh, putting people from New Orleans in barbed wired fenced camps, or uh, “giving” people toxic trailers to live in. Maybe FEMA will redeem itself by burying the NLE 10 for the sheer stupidity that such an exercise would be in “Lets spread some terror.” It’s enough ALREADY! Maybe FEMA is digging itself a wormhole of SHAME ON YOU to hide in. God/dess bless us if they would only do so.
If the plan is to reduce the impact of an attack, then it makes sense not to divulge information which could be used by terrorists to maximize the number of victims. This is also why you should NOT know about HOW all those tracking systems operate, otherwise TERRORISTS would easily figure how to avoid them.