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The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide In When Washington Is Destroyed
Submitted by William M. Arkin via PhaseZero,
It’s after midnight. From this mountaintop perch, he can still see the radioactive remains of what used to be Washington, D.C., illuminating the horizon as he exits the helicopter. The nuclear glow serves as stark proof that the intelligence community failed to foresee and prevent the worst, but at least someone was smart enough to build this mountain bunker in rural Virginia for him and his fellow spies to regroup and survive. He opens the reinforced steel door and begins his descent.
This isn’t paranoid conspiracy fiction. This exact scenario was played out this week.
America’s Preparathon, yesterday’s national pep rally—brought to you by the Department of Homeland Security—tipped me off to this real underground bunker north of Charlottesville, Virginia. The bunker’s purpose is completely secret, though I was easily able to verify that it has been expanded and spiffed up in the years since 9/11 at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. It serves as a compact parable for everything that is wrong with government.
Yesterday’s Preparathon was described by its sponsor FEMA as “a grassroots campaign for action.” Washington’s definition of action is lining up and marching, saluting, and following orders. But there’s a secret definition, written between the lines of the Constitution and public laws: Officialdom evacuating from disorderly and disobedient America before the citizenry catches up or catches on. Countless billions have been spent on this endeavor over the years, a secret orgy of preparedness going on behind the scenes, one that ensures Washington can defend itself, take care of its own, and survive no matter what.
Its called continuity of government, and it’s been refined over the years to anticipate foreign invasion, nuclear war, catastrophic accident, rioting and citizen unrest, an electromagnetic pulse above the capital, a catastrophic failure of critical infrastructure, a malicious hacking of the electrical grid, terrorist attack, hurricanes and earthquakes, an asteroid from space—you name it. The spigot opened after 9/11, gushing tax dollars into this subterranean world of never again, but just in case. If our all-seeing, all-knowing national security establishment fails...well, the White House and the Generals and the Departments large and small all have plans to depart the capital city and recover.
But what about the spies?
And so as it goes in Washington, the self-interested predictors of world events decided after 9/11 that they, too, needed their own continuity operation. That’s right: the very people who will fail to predict the Big One will need somewhere to go and keep writing their reports.
Which brings us to Peters Mountain. This year, for the first time, the office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that it would be participating in the Preparathon with something called the National Intelligence Emergency Management Activity (NIEMA). The DNI merely describes NIEMA as providing “the framework, platforms, and systems to enable the Director of National Intelligence to lead an integrated and resilient [intelligence community] enterprise capable of sustaining the ‘intelligence cycle’ under any crisis or consequence management event, both at our headquarters and at our alternate operating locations” (my emphasis).
But job descriptions, contracting documents, insider resumes, and furtive discussions with Washington sources reveal that this little-known “activity” is a $100-million-a-year disaster playpen. At its 24/7/365 Response Operations Center (at a classified location), watch officers provide what’s referred to as “situational awareness and crisis support” to the nation’s leaders; and when that fails, they evacuate to their classified alternate facility, which sources say is in Albemarle County in central Virginia.
There is really only one candidate—a mysterious facility atop Peters Mountain, roughly 16 miles east of Charlottesville—and it’s undergone a $61 million plus renovation since 2007.
For decades, there’s been speculation about just what Peters Mountain is, this Cold War artifact on the outskirts of Washington, part of a string of “hardened” communications nodes built to survive nuclear war in the 1950s. It’s a favorite of internet conspiracy types, but no one seems to know what it is, other than the fact that the land it’s on is officially owned by AT&T. And if that’s not clear, there’s an AT&T logo newly installed on the top of the mountain itself, a helicopter pad built for this don’t-pay-attention-to-us blank spot on the map.
“I always heard stories about how it was a Nuclear Missile base, or a super communications hub. But the coolest one was the rumor that on 9/12/2001 Anti-Aircraft Artillery went up the mountain and has not come down. There is a big paved road that goes to the top off of Turkey Sag Rd. [sic] which is a gravel road and tractor trailers are always going up the mountain with covered loads. There are all sorts of Gov’t signs about private property and no trespassing. From Gordonsville at night the top of the mountain is lit up like a Christmas Tree with a lot of blue lights which I thought was weird. and you can see vehicles driving around.”
I went down a rabbit’s hole of research trying to confirm that this indeed is an intelligence community bunker, scouring the records of Albemarle County and pulling the planning, construction and tax records for the land parcel, which is indeed described as belonging to AT&T, though it is listed as “vacant residential land” of no value.
The building permits that have been submitted to the county since 2007— B200701545AC dated 07/03/07; B201302542ATWR dated 10/29/13; and B201402314AC dated 11/12/14 — amount to $61,124,583.00 in interior and exterior alterations, including the building of that helicopter pad, a new bunker entrance, “alteration to interior spaces,” and installation of two new satellite dishes.
So this vacant residential land of no value, which has seen tens of millions of dollars in construction activity, is obviously something other than its cover. The county itself, in its useful GIS property viewer, shows the “vacant” residential land clearly houses several buildings.
Google and Bing each have satellite views of the mountain top, showing the same structures and the progress of construction since 2007.
The two large structures on top of the mountain, to the left of the helicopter pad, are assumed to be vent stacks and hardened power and communications antennae. Two satellite dishes added after 9/11 are also now apparent, suggesting autonomous and enduring communications.
Nothing in the federal budget or in the county records suggests any government occupation, and nothing refers to NIEMA or the intelligence community. That again comes from sources who have worked for the DNI and its continuity activity. They describe the national Warning, Alert, and Mobilization System (WAMS) which would alert a select group of civilian executives from across the intelligence community to deploy to the bunker. The alert would come from “The Communicator” Automated Notification System and would take two forms: alerts for everyone and alerts for the “core” participants. Because Washington is notorious for traffic congestion, those so-called core participants, those who have to move away from Washington within minutes of notification, would congregate and board helicopters which would take them away.
We sent a Gawker scout out to look at Peters Mountain Road this morning, to see if indeed there were men with guns and U.S. government insignia warning hikers to stay clear.
“Road closed” to him meant road closed, and he declined to drive further. County maps do not show the road as being closed or restricted in any way (bottom left hand corner, parcel 36-11A SCC). I guess that’s the prerogative of those who live in the shadows.
The bunker is built. It’s regularly exercised. It’s ready to go, joining Mount Weather and Raven Rock and the Olney bunkers that dot the west, north, and east of the capital. As the government —and now the intelligence community—button-up to protect themselves during a disaster, the helicopter pilots and drivers and the guards and the rest of the unchosen (even those who work for the same organizations) are supposed to just stay outside, always a scenario I find difficult to imagine. How would this exactly work, this glorious evacuation of a select few? “Honey I’m off to a secret mountain to survive Armageddon, good luck?”
And as for the local officials and people of Charlottesville, huddled in darkness without electricity, staring up at the blue-lit mountain glowing in the night on generator power? Well, they will just have to wait for the report to be written that it’s all clear, or for the one that says it’s all over, in which case Peters Mountain will be a lonely island, prepared for a future of nothingness. And there’s a report on that too, required to be submitted every 12 hours: It’s called the IC Health and Status report—health and status of the intelligence community, that is.
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I had noticed some buildings in Southwest Houston were lit everynight with blue lights. Those lights combined with the red lights, to notify aircraft of the presence of the building and the white lights, give glow of Satan at night.
Are the blue lights code lights for "don't bomb here" or "hideout" for "madmen only?"
I'd like to hear form other people if they've sited the blue lights in the cities they've visited.
With all due respect for the author, I do believe the CIA/NSA/WHATEVER has the brains to know that there will be some advantage to the US if the Russians target Peters Mountain with 2 or 3 of their hypersonic big boys.
The US spies prolly have sumpin like this somewhere but Peters Mountain looks like a $25 million decoy.
Too much information and detail about it.
I could be wrong. I suppose the CIA/NSA/WHATEVER could be that stupid to advertise the location where their nuclear proof hideout is. After all Nuland is calling some of the shots.
'Road Closed' says to me that they want you to think something is up there.
looks like a couple of them do not appreciate you supposing they may be stupid.
following your logic, NORAD's facility in Cheyenne Mountain would be an astonishingly expensive decoy.
I doubt these are non-functional facilities, but I doubt the scope of infrastructure COG has brought online is well known either.
who knows, maybe COG will rely secretly in part on the telecommuting model in order to NOT have key personnel concentrated in one of these death holes.
I'm not too keen to experience a catastrophe that would necessitate going underground for the sake of humanity's survival tho..
I love you glorious bastards too much..
You make a good point about NORAD in Cheyenne.
I have two replies. Perhaps there was different mind set after 2002 when the US quit the anti-ballistic missile treaty and ended MAD.
NORAD was built before the end of MAD. So let them know where it is. Peters Mountain came after(?) the end of MAD. So be careful not to step on any twigs.
But most important of all is that the neocons are such pathetic cowards they'd murder their children to prevent a nuclear exchange
I've told how we were homeless in Colorado in the 60's, living at Cherry Creek.
One day we took drive to find a place to live up into Aurora after going to Colorado Springs doing the same thing. Along the road was a mountain with MONSTROUSLY HUGE FUCKING DOORS. I was a kid, so I'm not certain where it was along the road. Anyway, as we drove, I saw a pickup truck go down the hill and along the doors, then turn onto them. As they turned onto them, the doors started to open. Craining my neck, I watched that truck drop into the hole.
It was so damned big, the truck was like a bug compared to it.
I think the doors of Goldman Sachs' vault prolly are twice as big as what you saw.
Any way you said the 60's. Well that was before MAD. MAD came along in 1972 with the anti-ballistic missile treaty
Onli in America would the plans for a high security bunker be required to have building permits, and then have those permits be available to the public. I wonder, does the facility have to be ADA accessible? We are truly an insane country.
This one is just a decoy.
The real underground pentagon is near the Pennsylvania/Maryland border.
You can't google map it, because it's always obscured on their maps with fluffy clouds.
That's not a secret, either.
It's south of Ft Ritchie, near Camp David.
That one's another decoy. Look north.
I hear they got underground rail systems linking them to DC.
Yeah, they're all "decoys."
Right.
Those underground rail systems- so that's what the Chinese are doing here in the US!
And here I thought it was to sell Chinese food and Laundromats.
Thanks for clearing that up! ; )
You know there are 4 air-force ones, so at any given time at least 3 are decoys, while 0 rides on a scooty puff junior.
The only way a bunker is any good is if you start the war or you're, coincidentall,y in that bunker. Otherwise, you won't have time to get there.
There are all sorts of bunkers scattered around the DC area, and many of them are a much shorter commute for these clowns. Some are literally right across from peoples homes ( 38.944°, -77.087°) or under people's homes ( 38.920°, -77.065°). The bridges across the Potomac are critical bottlenecks since the viability of helicopters in the event of an uncivil war is unknown. A bird's eye view of the cockroaches scattering would be interesting.
But the whole point of COG is that the beast survives the loss of many heads, which why bunkers remain occupied with "backup" staff 24/7. An interesting question is if Mr. Bigshot is actually able to successfully navigate past the Zombie hordes with his security detail and reach his great concrete temple... is someone really going to open the door for him? And who is going to do anything about it if the answer is no? For the really big fish the answer is obviously yes (absent a coup), but there are very sound reasons not to open those doors... depending on specific circumstances, and what might be buried in the appendices of the "backup" staff operating manuals.
Have any of these sites taken a large deilvery of astroturf? If one has, that will be Barry's Bunker.
Jesus, guys,
You really think the CIA files publicly-accessible civilian building permits for its secret post-nuclear reconstitution sites?
My guess is that this is a secure alternate cable or Internet backbone routing site. Lots of COG sites, civilian, government, and military in the so-called Federal Relocation Arc.
Is this one of them? Maybe.
Is this where the CIA and NSA are going to go? Only if they get lost and want to ask for directions. Like guys, much less guy spys, would do such a thing.
For more info on this fascinating subject, I suggest finding an old copy of "The Day After World War III" by Edward Zuckerman.
Tarabel.
The USA has spies in every nation, revealing things about those nations that they would prefer to keep secret.
What then, makes you think other nations don't have spies in the USA, revealing things about the USA that they would prefer to keep secret?
In these days of the internet, it's very hard to keep things formerly kept secret, secret.
Look, I don't disagree with what you are suggesting but you need to ask the infamous question of "cui bono" in the event of revelation.
A giant mountaintop installation with all the tree cover cleared away and with a well-maintained all-weather approach in an otherwise dirt road rural county is not a secret facility. With building permits on file at the local county office?
Those who have chosen to relocate into what they believe to be safe locations in the Blue Ridge are undoubtedly going to be surprised when a whole slew of ground-burrowing nukes "miss" their alleged targets in the soft, air-burst targets of evil welfare-infested cities and take out that lovely view of Mt. Whatever. The intense fallout from such a series of ground bursts on the hardened objectives of the Federal Relocation Arc will be ruinous to their pastoral plans. But that's what they get for faulty planning.
Yes, secret facilites are hard to keep secret from the all-seeing satellite eyes and spies and checkbooks of governments everywhere. But those who have spotted such facilities have zero interest, none, in revealing that they know where these installations are. Otherwise, that facility will become a warhead absorption tool while a new secret facility gets built.
There's plenty of gubmint bunkers- that's for certain- I've been in some of them.
But I believe most- if not all- US and other nation's bunkers have been revealed.
It's a tit-for-tat ongoing operation, for instance:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/russia-has-constructed-massive...
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/russians-to-rapidly-build...
http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2013/12/26/underground_soviet_shelters_...
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-spherical-bunker-in-russia-was-the-most...
There are, no doubt, some locations that haven't been disclosed yet- but I believe that as soon as they have been completed- at a cost of billion$, THEN they will be revealed. Great tactic to drain the enemy warchest.
The idea is to keep building new ones to stay ahead of the revelation of their locations.
yes, i heard
You have the Sabrett Polish Sausage concession in America's nuclear bunkers.
Soon you will be the wiener oligarch of the East Coast.
That's OK. Let them live out their life in a hole in the ground.
Agreed and proven by being built on a hill top with a very small parking lot.
I'd rather die than to be stuck down there with Hillary.
Stop bitchin and come over with your curtain rod so I'll have something to hang my meat curtains on.
Once the Russians know where all these bunkers are they can hit them multiple times creating ever larger craters.
Better believe the Russian want to get these sites.
It'll be like a clam bake pit that cooks these elitist bastards.
The Russian diplomats will be in there too, partying with vodka, caviar, and cocaine.
Doing the electric slide with the 0bamas.
Paging Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell... Paging Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell...
A ""special" dedication to the USSA Criminal Cabal - Take it away!
Ain't no MOUNTAIN high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep US from getting to YOU....
I'm imagining a post-apocalyptic world and I'm carrying a sword and dungeon crawling through this place.
This follows a very prominant theme in alternative media circles recently. It sure feels like we are on the cusp of "something big"
Since it's listed as vacant residential land of no value, they should hop on my offer of a cool 100 Jewbux.
LOL
Like a rats nest in a mountain.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
They can go in, but the question is, can they get out?
If you want a good view of the future, try Fallout 3.
It really does look like a prehistoric tomb for kings.
How can they not know this.
What happens if someone decides to drop some unkown items down those vent stacks?
Like bleach and ammonia?
Anyone who has owned a swimming pool knows that bleach is like weak lemonade compared to chlorine. Chlorine is nast shit and I think the dual shit-i-Z-ens in Kiev wanted to bomb a chlorine factory to kill thousands of people in eastern Ukraine (aka ethnic Russians).
You aren't aware of what those two commonly available household cleaners will do when mixed together?
http://chemistry.about.com/od/toxicchemicals/a/Mixing-Bleach-And-Ammonia...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394837/Woman-kills-using-Japane...
Yah, I made a little bit of that once by accident trying to clean a stain off the countertop. Never use 409 and then try bleach (I had no idea there was ammonia in 409). That was nasty. It ate the formica off the counter and drove me out of the kitchen. In retrospect I should have started with the bleach and I wouldn't have needed the 409.
Not much happens, because the prodcuts linked below are at the other end of the ventilation shaft and they are quite suitable for removing chloramines (chlorine gas) from the high volume air flow that is required to sustain life in big concrete sarcophagi. Stopping air from entering or escaping the vent stack is usually an easier goal to accomplish (tarps, garbage bags and lots of aluminum duct tape will work just fine on the blast vents as long as the doors are burried or welded shut, but if the design of the blast vent permits, you want to drop a rope or chain line down disable the ventilation fans).
(depending on which side of the pond you are on, these are two of the largest suppliers)
http://www.hdtglobal.com/series/fixed-site-cbrn-protection/
http://temet.com/page/cbrn-filtration-and-ventilation-systems
I live the next county over and often drive around the back roads in and out of the national and state forests in this area. The road thingy is screwed up. If it was a private road there must be a sign saying "End State Maintenance" where the public road ends and the private road begins. Obviously the road is state-maintained. It is possible to have "posted" signs on private land on either side of the public road, of course, but this nonsense with the "private road" is BS. Just another example of the spooks not being very good at what they do.
There is also a standard VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation) "Winding Road" yellow warning sign visible beyond the "Private Property Road Closed" sign along with a suggested 20 MPH speed. Then there are the sensors on the telephone pole and another pole apparently devoted to sensors. They are in front of the "Winding Road" sign on the same side of the road.
I wouldn't give two cents to live in this country after the ship hits the sand. The buffoons who would go into these bunkers deserve the crap that will be left. Don't forget there will be just a wee tad of radioctive debris around the DC area after the bombs go off. Once they emerge, it will be all over for them in a few hours!
Let's not forget RMC (Raven Mountain Complex), NORAD, DIA, Dulce Base (NM) etc et alia. And of course those sub rosa Magneto trains at Mach 2+ all paid for by taxpayer dollars which as most here know is a farce for the final end game etc.
Everybody have a chair left for theselves & families when the music stops ?
Bawhahahahahahahahaha
District 13 Bitchez!
My stompin' grounds.
The problem with this kind of setup is that a handful of guys will likely get there before SHTF. Once SHTF it will take a very well armed convoy to bust through the pirate roadblocks and reach the place. And the bigger the convoy the more likely that thousands of starving pilgrims will know about and try to reach the place.
I'm pretty confident the Russians would target this right after they bombed D.C. And when the end comes there won't be a safe place to hide. Not for long.
The Russians and Chinese are also aware if there 2 sites, with one being a decoy they'll just hit both multiple times. Blasting larger holes.
There are so many nukes each country have.
They are aware of construction sites and their usage. Any bunkers are know by the Russians and Chinese well before the American public knows.
It's kept secret to keep out the lower class American people during an attack.
Nuke the world and then move into an underground cave for 5-25 years.
Great fuckin plan.
They gotta come out sometime. To a wall of lead I hope.
I say weld the doors closed and throw in some cyanide into the vent shafts.
That'll smoke 'em out.
Weld the fuckers in!
I've always felt that the top brass of government and the military were afraid of their own king of scum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-PNPOiLjo
Wonder why the United States and their neo-nazi politicians supports these kinds of assholes while American kids live in poverty?Ya,I'd be afraid too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3j-t31Q-OE
They cannot hide. The NDEW will hit all known bases and that penetrates several miles deep at full power...
Would someone please send Putin the exact GPS coordinates of this so the ruskis can send some bunker busting nuc-love packages to cheer the cowards up?
Please?
He already knows - first target with the dirtiest bomb possible, enough to poison the surrounding air and land for thousands of years.... ;-)
Hey wait a minute... are these the Ant People that started the Hopi tribe?
It seems to me that the longer ZH articles are, the more they are trying to sell me bullshit.
This is bullshit. It was true 40 years ago. The truth now is far sicker...
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Be smart, freak out, and buy our shit.
here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaAfvVfW3bg
Here's a classic from Devo from the '80's that is very apropo:
It's a Beautiful World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEWksYA5Ys
Its a beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
For you, for you, for you
Its a wonderful time to be here
Its nice to be alive
Wonderful people everywhere
The way they comb their hair
Makes me want to say
Its a wonderful place
Its a wonderful place
Its a wonderful place
For you, for you, for you
Hey tell me what I see
Boy and girl with the new clothes on
You can shake it to me all night long hey hey
Its a beautiful world we live in
A sweet romantic place
Beautiful people everywhere
The way they show they care
Makes me want to say
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
Its a beautiful world
For you, for you, for you
Its not for me (Its a beautiful world)
For you (Its a beautiful world)
For you (Its a beautiful world)
For you (Its a beautiful world)
Not me (Its a beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful, beautiful world)
(Its a beautiful, beautiful world)
Just wait until thousands of junior spooks find out that their promised bunker slots have been taken by thousands of mistresses for the executive spooks.
This brings us back to the wisdom of shilling for sociopaths.
Imagine there's no bankers
It's easy if you try
No reprobrate pols or their stooges
Below a drone free sky
Imagine all the people
Living life without DC ooh ooh oohoo oo
Catchy tune.
aside from the distinct possiblity of some islame-o-nazi setting off a small-scale nuclear device in an act of terrorism, nuclear war won't happen. "they" can't make much money off it.
You fucking oxygen bandits are sooo fucking gullible. Where does it say owned by the US government? Everything is a conspiracy. Fucking retards...
If it isn't owned by the government there should be one hell of a county property tax payment being paid annually by AT&T.
Nothing is true until officially lied about or government forum trolls march in.
Why the tone? What has got you so upset? Why the foul language? If you need some love in your life there are places on line where they can find you a soulmate. They have had great success- they hooked up Dick Cheney with Satan and they are very happy.
Get over it- the government has brought all this distrust on themselves.
Why the tone? What has got you so upset? Why the foul language? . . .
BRAVO!!
Everything is a conspiracy. Fucking retards...
Not sure what your point is here my friend. It is way beyond the "conspiracy" stage about the numerous underground shelters that have been built for the "elite" in the USA (I HATE the word "Elite" - Elite my ass!). I guess I'm one of the mentally challenged ones you refer to . . . .
Well, I hope this place is built with disabled people in mind. Can't imagine rebuilding from a nuclear holocaust without Henry Kissinger's guidance and wisdom. Just remember, "No fighting in the War Room".
Why did they ruin .... a beautiful Virginia hill top .... that shit should be built .... in the creosote bush bad lands .... in west Texas ?
Check out the documentary on HULU
9/11: TEN YEARS OF DECEPTION
This 2015 film is presented in four parts. It is an international hearing with testimoney given by experts- physicists, engineers, and others to a panel that operates like a grand jury.
HULU is a mainstream site. Things are unraveling.
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You have appropriatly named yourself!
Get off your dead ass and wake up
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These underground facilities are built from bottom to top.
A new exit on the underground interstate highway.
Underground castles.
Isn't it great that the "leaders" of the USA make sure they have plenty of places to bug out to when they end up blowing up the world and they provide NOTHING for the general population? At the same time the Russians have built literally thousands of shelters for their 99%. You've got to love it in the land of the free (loader 1%r's) and the home of the brave (neo-con chickenhawks). . . .
Not to mention the fact that any private citizen who has built, at their own expense, a shelter with emergency supplies, is branded a potential terrorist and should be watched closely by the polise etc..
Just another high value target in a target rich environment.
There are two Peters Mountain. The one described in this article and one that is on the WVa and Va border which is much further south than Charlotteville. Google Earth takes you to the one in WVA when you enter "Peters Mountain Virginia". When you enter "Peters Mountain Rd Va" it takes you to the Mountain described in the article.
"And so as it goes in Washington, the self-interested predictors of world events decided after 9/11 that they, too, needed their own continuity operation. That’s right: the very people who will fail to predict the Big One will need somewhere to go and keep writing their reports."
The ones that caused it...
US Govt, the ultimate preppers.
The heath & status of the 'intelligence community' is such that they have collectively contracted a fatal disease and their prospects for a long happy life are nil. They can fantasize about digging themselves out of the mire they are collectively in, but they are not capable of saving themselves, their families, or the US of A. When animals know they are going to die they often seek out areas where they will not be bothered by predators. The entirety of the intelligence establishment should be viewed as an animal that is crawling into a cave to die. The politicians are dependent upon the 'intelligence community' to ensure their collective survival, but the politicians forgot to ascertain the degree of 'intelligence' that they were reliant on. When they figure out that they are indeed going to perish en masse, it will be too God damned late.
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