Defense Tech: Spec Ops in DC: "'Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is conducting a... Top Secret and compartmented [exercise of] the military’s extra-legal [response to] weapons of mass destruction,' writes William Arkin, on his extremely awesome new blog, Early Warning. 'It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control.'

A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) confirmed the existence of Granite Shadow to me yesterday, but all he would say is that Granite Shadow is the unclassified name for a classified plan."

(Via a DefenseTech.)