FreeRepublic.com | President Obama extends 9/11 national emergency - terrorist threat of further attacks on the United States is continuing and remains an "immediate threat and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2009"
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Obama on Thursday extended the national emergency declared following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. President Bush first declared the national emergency on September 14, 2001, three days after the terrorist attacks which left thousands of people dead in three American cities. The National Emergencies Act requires each national emergency to be ended or continued every year.
