Investigators don’t know for sure who did it or why, but it’s clear that our power grid has not been secured, despite billions of dollars being spent on the security of the homeland over the last decade. Head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Jon Wellinghoff called it “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred.” There are differing opinions at government agencies about what happened. The FBI says it does not believe the attack was terrorism. US Navy Seals have said it is a carbon copy of how they would carry out such an operation.Īccording to Sky News the FBI doesn’t believe this was an act of terrorism – though stamping your own gold coins, questioning mainstream ideologies, or purchasing food in bulk do qualify as suspected terrorist operations: (Closed Circuit cameras capture San Josa, CA power grid sniper attack) And they’re not the only ones who think so.
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This resulted in millions of dollars worth of damage and a reported electrical outage that spanned nearly a month.Īccording to officials this was a sophisticated attack likely involving the coordination of multiple individuals. The attackers first cut phone lines from the sub-station and they then proceeded to fire 100 rounds from long-range at critical components such as the generators that keep the station cooling systems operational. Though not reported at the time out of national security concerns, it was recently revealed that an entire domestic power grid sub-station came under attack in what seems to be a professionally executed assault.
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Outgoing Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano recently suggested that such a widespread outage is imminent and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke who is a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee concluded that the chance of a serious geo-magnetic event crippling our power grid is 100%.Īnd as recently as last year Americans got a taste of what such an attack may look like. With the invention of “Super EMP” electro-magnetic pulse weapons, the possibility of Carrington-class solar flares, and the potential for cyber attackers to remotely compromise our interconnected computer systems, there may come a time in our country’s future when our entire way of life is threatened because we no longer have access to the one thing that keeps it all moving – electricity. The threat of a breakdown of our national power infrastructure has been a growing concern for the last decade.