"My first reaction was, this has to be a spoof put together by some satirist."

Yes indeed I am a satirist who sometimes find it necessary to show what is happening...

thats why I used the official WhiteHouse.gov website link
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

For 60 years the goverment has been controlled by no fewer than 100 corporations. It is no longer arrogance but merely a natural course of events for corporate war profiteers who control a military empire to overtly take over the entire constitutional chain of command and balances so that there are no obstacles to war except for flesh and blood that can be obliterated with extreme predjudice and low cost.