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Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret
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Washington Post
Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret
Fri Mar 1 03:17:36 2002
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Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret
Spurred by Terror Threat, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to 'Bunker Duty'
to Ensure Federal Survival
By Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 1, 2002; Page A1
President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior
civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating
for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule
after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.
Execution of the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan" resulted not
from the Cold War threat of intercontinental missiles, the scenario
rehearsed for decades, but from heightened fears that the al Qaeda terrorist
network might somehow obtain a portable nuclear weapon, according to three
officials with first-hand knowledge. U.S. intelligence has no specific
knowledge of such a weapon, they said, but the risk is thought great enough
to justify the shadow government's disruption and expense.
Deployed "on the fly" in the first hours of turmoil on Sept. 11, one
participant said, the shadow government has evolved into an indefinite
precaution. For that reason, the high-ranking officials representing their
departments have begun rotating in and out of the assignment at one of two
fortified locations along the East Coast. Rotation is among several changes made in late October or early November, sources said, to the standing directive Bush inherited from a line of presidents reaching back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Officials who are activated for what some of them call "bunker duty" live