Navy Caught Conducting Secret Electromagnetic Warfare Testing in Public in Washington StateBy Claire Bernish That being said, electromagnetic warfare testing and training has been covertly conducted by the U.S. Navy on public roads in Washington State for over five years. An exclusive report from Truthout divulged the secretive EMF testing, discovered through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests coupled with contradictory and fumbling public statements by the Navy and Forest Service. An email thread between the Navy and US Forest Service between 2010 and 2012, recently obtained via [FOIA] request filed by Oregon-based author and activist Carol Van Strum in November 2014, revealed that the Navy has likely been driving mobile electromagnetic warfare emitters and conducting electromagnetic warfare training in the Olympic National Forest and on public roads on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula since 2010, reported Truthouts Dahr Jamail. Alarmingly, without public notification or even cautionary boundary warnings in place to prevent accidental exposure, the Navys EMF testing has taken place in public areas and popular tourist destinations for five years. This vastly contradicts its proposed electromagnetic warfare training plans, ostensibly set to begin this year, which have stirred enormous controversy. Besides those harmful effects on humans, there are potentially large-scale negative impacts on avian, aquatic, reptilian, and other biota in the environmentally sensitive area which includes Hoh Rainforest. Effects on small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians were completely ignored, despite the fact that all 15 Olympic National Forest and state-owned sites selected by the Navy for the mobile emitters are in critical habitat for endangered species, explained former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official, Karen Sullivan, who worked in the Division of Endangered Species and External Affairs for over 15 years. They even said that amphibians were unlikely to be found at the sites theyd chosen, and the Forest Service did not dispute this. Do they not realize its a rainforest? According to the report, the Navy secretively conducted its own environmental assessment of the impact of its proposed testing in the area. Without alerting anyone the assessment had supposedly been carried out, the period allotted for public comment went completely unnoticed even area elected officials, residents, and Native American tribes remained in the dark, by design. Though the Navy maintains the public isnt at risk during this training, Navy contractor Gerald (Jerry) Sodano told Peninsula Daily News it would take just fifteen minutes for electromagnetic radiation from one emitter truck to damage the liquid tissue of the eye. Dangers like these are what has caused enormous public contention for the proposed war games. But the fact that the testing has been happening for years without public knowledge puts the Navy and Forest Service potentially in violation of the law. Public statements by both Navy and Forest Service officials obfuscated facts to the point of deception, especially in light of documentation showing such testing has been taking place since 2010. And as Truthout noted, the Navy and federal government were plainly denying Washingtonians access to the facts about what was really taking place in their state. State government officials had also been left out of the loop concerning the Navys electromagnetic warfare tests. Sullivan contacted the Washington State Dept. of Transportation in March 2015, Truthout reported, inquiring about records for any permits issued to, or requested by, the Navy for its use of public roads during testing. According to WSDOT official Joni Higgins, who was shocked to hear about such activity, no such permit category even existed. As Dr. Martin Pall, professor emeritus of Washington State University, who has extensively studied, lectured, and written on the subject of the effects of electromagnetic radiation, told Truthout, the Navys claims of safety are untrue. What the Navy is doing we have no idea because they wont tell us, he said. But from what little they have told us, they are using a lot of pulse fields in wavelengths that are damaging to us, to biological organisms. They give us not one iota of evidence of what biological effects are produced by those fields, and dont even tell us what fields they are using. You only find empty statements of dont worry about these things. Truthout has reported extensively on the Navys proposed electromagnetic warfare testing and its possible effects and its controversial plans to forge ahead without concern for possible public harm. These latest revelations that the military branch has already engaged in such war games without public knowledge do nothing to quell the justifiable fear about its intentions. Claire Bernish writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com Slowly and ever so gradually, what has happened in so many countries is happening to us.Our military is turning on us civvies Slowly? Gradually? Are you daft? Were you perhaps living in Antarctica on May 4, 1970? Then of course there was the McArthur led attack on the bonus Marchers on the Anacostia flats in the long hot summer of 1932. Just to name two. At least you ARE waking up from your exceptionalist inculcation. Youre not quite there yet but youre on the way. Does everyone remember all of the bizarre news stories weve been seeing that describe huge numbers of birds who are mysteriously dropping dead out of the skies? Or, the stories weve read about the mysterious near disappearance of the bee populations? Could this be the reason why? Birds fish yes as thousands just drop dead or wash up on shore no cause has ever been found. Bees are being systematically destroyed by Monsanto there is a project to replace them with little robotic pollinators so they can keep poisoning us. Unbelievable but true. Dont worry AMERICAS NAVY A Global Force for Good Is that force, or farce? Getting harder to tell The only place this should be allowed is in the badlands or the sahara where there is very little life ; not in the midst of national forests public populations. Insane, but will our politicians law enforcement stop it? Doubtful; they are planning to use it for crowd control when we demand redress of our grievances from the govt. This should not be allowed anywhere, period. You give an inch they take a mile Evidently you dont even have to do that. They have been doing it in secret; exposing everyone everything to harm for years. Dont even know if an outright ban would stop them.Kennedy tried look what they did to him. The military in Operation Northwoods wanted to shoot down a civilian plane claim it was Cuba to start a war he nixed it along with escalating Vietnam. Military industrial complex is completely out of control bleeding into the police force. By design the hierarchical oligarchy known as the US gov. will do as it pleases because it writes the rules as it gets caught in its lies. HOW WONDERFUL FOR THE GOVERNMENTS THAT PEOPLE DONT THINK! Adolph Hitler But the trooooops, we have to support the troooooooooooops. Hey they were doing this to protect your freedom, and so you have a choice of which puppet to vote for, so just shut up. If WalMart or Texaco had done something like this the outrage would be never ending. Not to worry, theyre obviously just trying to flush out big foot so they can weaponize him. Great comments here, everyone! Welcome to the the world of Guinea Pigs. When the US military moves their lips, they are lying. All under obamas watch. 