Building the spa in the 60s was the ruse for building a huge fortified underground bunker that would house the whole of government in case of an attack. Super secret until sometime in the past 20-25 years. Very cool to tour it but freaky in concept.

Watch for a major construction project at MAL to cover his “bunker south”. He’ll run his “third term” shadow govt from there.

What an asshat.

They ran the story in their Sunday magazine section, back when they had a Sunday magazine section.

And good afternoon.

... unless this happens -

Unless I am mistaken, the US's largest underground bunker is sitting empty just down the road from me.......ready to be re-utilized at a moments notice.......Didn't Cheney move NORAD "OUT" of Cheyenne Mountain years ago? and put all the "stuff" above ground in Colorado Springs?????????? But reports were that it was being perfectly maintained to be used on a moments notice??????

I am sure Trump would enjoy having something like that under the White House........

first constructed when Robert C. Byrd was in Congress and completed a few years after he became Senator!

Thanks for that.......That one is nowhere near the size/complexity of the installation in Cheyenne Mountain. NORAD proved itself to be practically worthless during 9/11......maybe that is why they abandoned it??????? It is still maintained, with all its immunities ready to be occupied at a moments notice.....
Both the GreenBrier and Norad would not protect anyone these days, with all the much more powerful nuclear weapons, I am sure.
It was said, even decades ago, that Russia had a dozen Nuclear weapons aimed at NORAD, to insure it being obliterated....

AS always, BRDS, thanks for responding.......and May you never quit with your incredibly excellent articles.......POPS

(elected officials) somewhere secure as quickly as possible and "disguise" itself under a resort.

In Colorado, they could just tunnel into the mountains there and create the facility. There is a tunnel/training facility also in WV, courtesy of Sen. Robert Byrd!

Long-Forgotten Tunnel Revived For Homeland Defense Training

We always laughed about whether these were the "undisclosed locations" that Darth Cheney fled to time and time again.

Many of us remember Shrub flying around on AF1 for hours on 9/11 before finally landing and disembarking. They were ready to fly him for a long time, including, IIRC, having a refueling jet nearby (or at least on standby) .

Plus on 9/11 (and after), the CAPs were continually flying a loop between D.C. and NYC, where they were going past Philly on the way (we could see them do their fly-bys).

The shelters back in the '50s/'60s were based on what would be a single warhead nuke like what we dropped during WW2. Nowadays you have stuff like a single Minuteman III (fitted with a single warhead) being the equivalent of 20 Hiroshima bombs.

there were reports that NORAD was running a "simulation program" at the time of 9/11 and were useless for many hours.
There were also reports that it took some time to scramble the fighter jets, and that many weren't even armed and had planned to fly their planes into the airliners if necessary. There are recordings out there, that I have listened to, of Air Traffic Control not knowing where the planes were because the Hijackers had turned off the transponders.....I would think that Norad's incredible radar(s)would have been a great help if they had been up and running. The recording showed that the fighter jets that did get up, were able to be given no information of where the planes were at that time, speed, and direction only where they had been before the Transponders were turned off.
With the statement of the 1997 PNAC group, and Louis Freh? ignoring all the Frightening reports from his FBI down in Phoenix about the mid easterners in commercial aircraft flight schools, I, for one, truly believe that the opportunity for 9/11 was created by Cheney/Rumsfeld Incorporated.......per their statement in the PNAC Manifesto.....

Things have changed, at least in my area of the world. An air base on the border of Denver has two fully armed fighters that are able to be LAUNCHED, in five minutes. They come over Denver at a low altitude, with their after burners on, rattling our windows every week or two.....We can hear their roar, and I go outside to watch them come over.....
I talked to an ATC, and he said they are supposed to notify Denver ATC and use certain pathways, but they often don't, and just avoid all other aircraft shown on their radar on their way out......

whether Dover in Delaware, Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst in Jersey, and Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove here in PA (about 10 miles from me) where the Reservists deploy from. About once a month, they would have those big choppers in formation flying overhead and they were LOUD!

My area of the city is under a flight path for all sorts of planes including from KLOM, KPNE, and of course KPHL!

without any security clearance.

Her important job was as an administrative assistant in the Dept Or Agricultural*. Seems the powers liked the idea of having attractive young women federal workers assigned to their underground hide out in case of real trouble.

*worth noting, her mom was a right wing asset for Nicaragua back in the day, so there was family cred with the powers behind Reagan

and its won't be finish in time for Trumps YMCA dance

When he's out of office, it should be demolished and made into a rose garden....

And probably will need lots and lots of Febreeze.

When Hitler moved into the Führerbunker the end was close. Only a few months away.

. . . another Fascist leader who had a bunker under/near his version of the White House?

It may be just some goofy rambling from what little mind he has left.

It will make an excellent target for all our enemies. It seems like that list is growing.

I mean, after all, Trump HAS to be protected while normal people die, right?

I hate that asshole. I always feel a little better when I get that comment out of my system.

Isn’t this the kind of appropriation that Congress should sign off on at least debated for God sakes

was beneath it. The reason being any potential adversary would likely target the residence or the west wing where the president was more likely to be found.

My guess would be that bunker is being expanded or hardened more to withstand more advanced weaponry or both.

Thanks to Trump, now potential adversaries won't have to guess where it is. They can probably take satellite pics of the kind of construction vehicles and materials that are being brought in, too.

He seems rather, well, chicken.

Bonkers!

his term.

How appropriate.

I'm sure Vlad knows a contractor or two he'd recommend.

telling all your enemies.

To avoid arrest and prison.