{"id":13925,"date":"2008-12-17T05:46:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=13925"},"modified":"2008-12-17T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:46:48","slug":"emergency-contingency-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=13925","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Contingency [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/17\/us\/politics\/17transition.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=print\">The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans<\/a> to help guide President-elect <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Barack Obama<\/a> if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on United States facilities overseas or a fresh outbreak of instability in the Middle East, according to people briefed on them. Each then outlines options for Mr. Obama to consider.<\/p>\n<p>The contingency planning goes beyond what other administrations have done, with President Bush and Mr. Obama vowing to work in tandem to ensure a more efficient transition in a time of war and terrorist threat. The commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, noting problems during the handover from President <a title=\"More articles about Bill Clinton.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/c\/bill_clinton\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Bill Clinton<\/a> to Mr. Bush, called for a better process \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201csince a catastrophic attack could occur with little or no notice,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d as its report put it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThis is very unusual,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d said Roger Cressey, a former Clinton White House counterterrorism official who was held over under Mr. Bush. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWe certainly did not do that. When the transition happened from Clinton to Bush, remember it was a totally different world. Besides, we were too busy spray-painting graffiti in the Lincoln Bedroom, superglueing pennies over the locks and placing buckets of water over the doorways.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so I made that last bit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=13925\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}