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The government in the shadows - smh.com.au
24 August 2002 
Details of FEMA's national security role first emerged during the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal. Iran-Contra involved the clandestine selling of weapons to Iran, illegally using the proceeds to fund US-backed Central American insurgents, the Contras. It was an episode that led to felony convictions for some of the Reagan administration's key figures, such as John Poindexter and Elliott Abrams, both of whom are in the Bush Administration.
As one of his last acts as president, George Bush Snr pardoned those still implicated by the scandal. Others had convictions reversed.
According to the Washington Post, the creation of a US "shadow government" was also a part of the Reagan initiatives.
Sure they have the rightest of right wing plans under consideration. This better not piss of the US public. These are tight times.
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