of United States citizens. Obamas declaration, however, is incidental because the United States has been under a state of emergency since September 14, 2001. Bush extended this emergency (against a bogus terrorist threat) on August 28, 2008. Will President Obama allow the state of national emergency, first declared by President George W. Bush on 9/14/01 and re-declared seven times, to remain in effect? asked Peter Dale Scott and Dan Hamburg on February 10, 2009. On September 10 of this ...