[CPEO-MEF] EXPANSION: "Navy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games" in Washington state

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games

Dahr Jamail
Truthout
January 11, 201
Beginning in mid-January, Navy SEALs will be practicing unannounced  
and clandestine combat beach landings across Washington State's Puget  
Sound and many other coastal areas of that state.

The simulated combat exercises, which will include the use of mini- 
submarines and other landing craft, will deposit Navy SEALs carrying  
"simulated weapons" on 68 beach and state park areas in Puget Sound,  
the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Washington's west coast, unbeknownst  
to most of the relevant government agencies tasked with overseeing  
these areas.

Internal Navy emails, two slide shows (which can be viewed in full  
here and here) and other documents obtained exclusively by Truthout  
reveal the vast extent of the operations. They also reveal the fact  
that the Navy labeled the relevant files as "For Official Use Only"  
and emails as "Attorney-Client privilege," a move that exempts such  
documents from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).


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For the entire article, see
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34367-exclusive-navy-uses-us- 
citizens-as-pawns-in-domestic-war-games

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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