On July 9, 2007, WMR reported on the expansion of an old
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) database containing
the names of American citizens who would be rounded up and
incarcerated in the event of a national emergency declaration.

WMR reported: "After 9/11, the Bush White House used FEMA's
secret and illegal database of American citizens, code-named
Main Core, to target American citizens with electronic and
other surveillance. FEMA's database had increased in size with
the addition of raw telecommunications intercept data on American
citizens obtained from the National Security Agency (NSA)."

Main Core has its roots in a smaller database developed
by FEMA during the Reagan administration.

In the July 9 WMR report it was also noted: "[FEMA] then run
by one of Ronald Reagan's cronies from California, former
California National Guard commander Gen. Louis Giuffrida,
managed to obtain from the FBI a list of some 12,000 names
contained in the FBI's domestic intelligence files. When FBI
Director William Webster learned that Giuffrida had used the
list as a basis to create a database of 100,000 American citizens
who were considered threats to national security, he demanded
that Giuffrida return the list and all copies to the FBI.
The list contained the names of individuals opposed to
U.S. policies in Central America, tax protesters, and people
known as survivalists.

However, FEMA did not return all of the copies of its lists
to the FBI. In the 1980s, White House official Oliver North,
working with FEMA, developed a "continuity of government"
contingency plan called REX-84, or "Readiness Exercise 1984,"
that would have instituted plans to round up and intern hundreds
of thousands of American citizens in the event martial law
was declared. Then-Attorney General William French Smith
formally protested the existence of the North-Giuffrida plan to
National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane."

WMR also reported that it was this renewed program to round up
Americans that was at the heart of the March 10, 2004 confrontation
between White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff
Andrew Card on one side and Deputy Attorney General James Comey
on the other in Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital room.
Ashcroft and Comey refused to sign off on the Bush plans for
maintaining a database of Americans considered subversive.

WMR has obtained a Texas Observer article dated May 15, 1987 by
Louis Dubose, which provides greater details on the early FEMA database.
Then House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Gonzales discovered
that the FBI list turned over to FEMA was the Administrative Index (ADEX),
a list of 12,000 of dossiers on American citizens. Gonzales charged
the list was to be used by FEMA to detain Americans considered to be
a threat to national security. Gonzalez also said the list should
have never been turned over to FEMA.

The Texas Observer article also refers to an Austin American-Statesman
article from December 1986 (WMR is attempting to obtain a copy of
this article) that says it obtained internal FBI documents revealing
a struggle between Smith's successor as Attorney General, Edwin Meese,
and FBI Director Webster over the FBI maintaining control of ADEX.
Meese and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane demanded
the FBI turn over ADEX to FEMA.

FEMA also had plans to round up and detain 400,000 Central Americans
in the United States, in addition to a number of Arab-Americans.
Ironically, the FEMA plan, called the "Alien Terrorists and Undesirables
Contingency Plan," identified the isolation of the federal prison
in Oakdale, Louisiana as suitable as a detention center. Former Alabama
Governor Don Siegelman is currently incarcerated at Oakdale in what is
recognized as a political prison sentence engineered by the Bush
administration through Karl Rove and corrupt GOP federal prosecutors,
judges, and state officials in Alabama.