![]() "You're saying they are not consulting with Congress?" Koppel asked. Not even Congress has access to them, which is really pretty extraordinary when you consider that even the most highly-classified covert military and intelligence operations have to be reported to at least eight Members of Congress, the 'Gang of Eight.'" ![]() No presidential emergency action document has even been released, or even leaked. "But since then, they've expanded to address other types of emergencies as well. "They originated in the Eisenhower administration as part of an effort to try to plan for a potential Soviet nuclear attack," Goitein said. Goitein says what little we do know about PEADs comes from references to them in other documents, some of which are now declassified. "And what's alarming about that is that no one really knows what the limits of those claimed authorities might be, because they are often developed and kept in secret." Koppel asked, "Several times during his administration, President Trump has made allusions to secret powers that he has that we don't know about. The alarming scope of the president's emergency powers ("The Atlantic)."These are essentially presidential orders that are drafted in anticipation of a range of hypothetical, worst-case scenarios," Goitein said. ![]()
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