— The always astute More Than Zero comments on the Shadow Government non-issue, as do several of the less-astute. It’s the ultimate irony that Bush-haters would bring this issue to the Internet. Why, you ask?
Well, boys and girls, the precursor to the Internet was a little deal called ARPANet whose main purpose in life was providing a communication system to link government facilities in the event of an attack rendering civilian communications systems inoperable. The ‘Net is, after all, a redundant, distributed system that can survive multiple outages. And why would it have to do this? Well, part of the reason is to enable defense and the other parts of the Executive to continue to function from secure locations after a devastating attack. The Bush Shadow Government uses facilities that have been in place to ensure the continuity of government in the event of attack since, um, at least 1969.