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coastie
10-26-2012, 09:33 PM
I have no words...just read it. It says it all. Released 2 hours ago. There is silence in my head right now.:eek:



The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 26, 2012
Executive Order -- Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council


EXECUTIVE ORDER
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ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE
HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance the Federal Government's use of local partnerships to address homeland security challenges, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. The purpose of this order is to maximize the Federal Government's ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support homeland security priorities. Partnerships are collaborative working relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined. Collaboration enables the Federal Government and its partners to use resources more efficiently, build on one another's expertise, drive innovation, engage in collective action, broaden investments to achieve shared goals, and improve performance. Partnerships enhance our ability to address homeland security priorities, from responding to natural disasters to preventing terrorism, by utilizing diverse perspectives, skills, tools, and resources.

The National Security Strategy emphasizes the importance of partnerships, underscoring that to keep our Nation safe "we must tap the ingenuity outside government through strategic partnerships with the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, and community-based organizations. Such partnerships are critical to U.S. success at home and abroad, and we will support them through enhanced opportunities for engagement, coordination, transparency, and information sharing." This approach recognizes that, given the complexities and range of challenges, we must institutionalize an all-of-Nation effort to address the evolving threats to the United States.

Sec. 2. White House Homeland Security Partnership Council and Steering Committee.

(a) White House Homeland Security Partnership Council. There is established a White House Homeland Security Partnership Council (Council) to foster local partnerships -- between the Federal Government and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial government and law enforcement -- to address homeland security challenges. The Council shall be chaired by the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (Chair), or a designee from the National Security Staff.

(b) Council Membership.

(i) Pursuant to the nomination process established in subsection (b)(ii) of this section, the Council shall be composed of Federal officials who are from field offices of the executive departments, agencies, and bureaus (agencies) that are members of the Steering Committee established in subsection (c) of this section, and who have demonstrated an ability to develop, sustain, and institutionalize local partnerships to address policy priorities.

(ii) The nomination process and selection criteria for members of the Council shall be established by the Steering Committee. Based on those criteria, agency heads may select and present to the Steering Committee their nominee or nominees to represent them on the Council. The Steering Committee shall consider all of the nominees and decide by consensus which of the nominees shall participate on the Council. Each member agency on the Steering Committee, with the exception of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, may have at least one representative on the Council.

(c) Steering Committee. There is also established a Steering Committee, chaired by the Chair of the Council, to provide guidance to the Council and perform other functions as set forth in this order. The Steering Committee shall include a representative at the Deputy agency head level, or that representative's designee, from the following agencies:

(i) Department of State;

(ii) Department of the Treasury;

(iii) Department of Defense;

(iv) Department of Justice;

(v) Department of the Interior;

(vi) Department of Agriculture;

(vii) Department of Commerce;

(viii) Department of Labor;

(ix) Department of Health and Human Services;

(x) Department of Housing and Urban Development;

(xi) Department of Transportation;

(xii) Department of Energy;

(xiii) Department of Education;

(xiv) Department of Veterans Affairs;

(xv) Department of Homeland Security;

(xvi) Office of the Director of National Intelligence;

(xvii) Environmental Protection Agency;

(xviii) Small Business Administration; and

(xix) Federal Bureau of Investigation.

At the invitation of the Chair, representatives of agencies not listed in subsection (c) of this section or other executive branch entities may attend and participate in Steering Committee meetings as appropriate.

(d) Administration. The Chair or a designee shall convene meetings of the Council and Steering Committee, determine their agendas, and coordinate their work. The Council may establish subgroups consisting exclusively of Council members or their designees, as appropriate.

Sec. 3. Mission and Function of the Council and Steering Committee. (a) The Council shall, consistent with guidance from the Steering Committee:

(i) advise the Chair and Steering Committee members on priorities, challenges, and opportunities for local partnerships to support homeland security priorities, as well as regularly report to the Steering Committee on the Council's efforts;

(ii) promote homeland security priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal Government field offices and State, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders;

(iii) advise and confer with State, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies interested in expanding or building local homeland security partnerships;

(iv) raise awareness of local partnership best practices that can support homeland security priorities;

(v) as appropriate, conduct outreach to representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial government and law enforcement entities with relevant expertise for local homeland security partnerships, and collaborate with other Federal Government bodies; and

(vi) convene an annual meeting to exchange key findings, progress, and best practices.

(b) The Steering Committee shall:

(i) determine the scope of issue areas the Council will address and its operating protocols, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget;

(ii) establish the nomination process and selection criteria for members of the Council as set forth in section 2(b)(ii) of this order;

(iii) provide guidance to the Council on the activities set forth in subsection (a) of this section; and

(iv) within 1 year of the selection of the Council members, and annually thereafter, provide a report on the work of the Council to the President through the Chair.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) The heads of agencies participating in the Steering Committee shall assist and provide information to the Council, consistent with applicable law, as may be necessary to implement this order. Each agency shall bear its own expense for participating in the Council.

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof;

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals; or

(iii) the functions of the Overseas Security Advisory Council.

(c) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and appropriate protections for privacy and civil liberties, and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(d) 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 26, 2012.

coastie
10-26-2012, 09:47 PM
Shameless f*cking bump...holy god people, a Romney thread on top? Really?

Anti Federalist
10-26-2012, 11:10 PM
What, in government speak, is a "stakeholder" exactly?

tangent4ronpaul
10-26-2012, 11:26 PM
What, in government speak, is a "stakeholder" exactly?

Halliburton
Goldman Sacs
The Rothchilds
China
etc...

-t

Pericles
10-27-2012, 12:16 AM
Here is the entry point for the SPLC and other left wing organization to feed some more at the taxpayer expense and get their propaganda inculcated in the DHS policy:

(v) as appropriate, conduct outreach to representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial government and law enforcement entities with relevant expertise for local homeland security partnerships, and collaborate with other Federal Government bodies; and

Anti Federalist
10-27-2012, 12:22 AM
Here is the entry point for the SPLC and other left wing organization to feed some more at the taxpayer expense and get their propaganda inculcated in the DHS policy:

(v) as appropriate, conduct outreach to representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial government and law enforcement entities with relevant expertise for local homeland security partnerships, and collaborate with other Federal Government bodies; and

Bingo.

mad cow
10-27-2012, 12:35 AM
Friday Night Fascism.

mczerone
10-27-2012, 12:37 AM
In layman's terms: if anyone, from you neighbor to you State Police rats you out for anything they deem "anti-American", the report can be funneled straight to Obama (or Romney) and his super-secret kill list.

Not only that, but executive funds can be distributed out to these people willy-nilly to reward stool pigeons, to create dependents on the sitting president, or to fund ginned-up terror plots.


I don't think that this is anything but another straw on the camel's back and won't be an immediate descent into a Nazi-esque police state, but its written to allow that extreme.

Carson
10-27-2012, 01:01 AM
Evidence of a conspiracy?

heavenlyboy34
10-27-2012, 01:06 AM
Will that Constitution thing save us this time or leave us disappointed as usual?

GunnyFreedom
10-27-2012, 11:45 PM
Will that Constitution thing save us this time or leave us disappointed as usual?

Just like a firearm, it can do nothing if people do not use it. Guns don't kill, people do. Constitutions don't limit government, people do. We've been taught that ignorance is strength, and the ignorance of the Constitution is deliberate. The ignorance of the people will destroy the naton with or without the Constitution. The sort of hard-core anticonstitution bent some display reminds me of someone who would rather I go into battle disarmed than armed.

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
10-28-2012, 09:23 AM
Halliburton
Goldman Sacs
The Rothchilds
China
etc...

-t


I think mostly, you just need to know that when they are talking about a stakeholder, they don't mean YOU.

jay_dub
10-28-2012, 09:30 AM
This fits in rather nicely withe the EO of March 16, 2012, dubbed National Defense Resources Preparedness.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

One writer's take on the above EO.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/martial-law-under-another_b_1370819.html

Edit: Funny how Obama signs this just days before an election he may well lose. The toolbox of tyranny gets bigger no matter who is in office.