Overview
- Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff, went public with a warning about a secret White House “Doomsday Book” that holds pre-drafted emergency orders kept in a secure location known to very few.
- He says the directives could allow detention of civilians, suspension of communications, press censorship, freezing of property, and steps that resemble martial law.
- Taylor outlines a 2026 midterm scenario that begins with claims of a rigged count, shifts to federal investigations, reframes protests under an NSPM-7 doctrine as organized violence, and leads to mass arrests using ICE facilities, while he stresses this is a warning rather than a prediction.
- He cites recent increases in ICE funding for new facilities as a sign that the capacity for large-scale detentions is expanding.
- He adds that career officials previously blocked an effort to install a loyalist near emergency authorities on the National Security Council, a near-miss he says showed how close access came.