CONGRESS WARNED ‘CATASTROPHIC DANGER’ LOOMING:’Political gridlock’ could get millions killed
F. MICHAEL MALOOF
WND.com
May 13, 2015
A lack of will among politicians in Washington is the reason why there is no plan to secure America’s national grid system from an electromagnetic pulse that would threaten countless lives, according to testimony delivered to Congress Wednesday.
An EMP catastrophe could come through nature, such as a massive solar flare directed at Earth, but also through a nuclear explosion at high altitude.
At a joint hearing Wednesday before the subcommittees on national security and the interior, under the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, expert Peter Pry pointed a finger at Washington.
“Political gridlock in Washington is preventing the federal government from implementing any of the several cost-effective plans to protect the national grid,” he said.
Pry, executive director of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board, said there is so little effort to address the danger.
Most state governments aren’t even aware they have options to strengthen their portion of the grid and protect their citizens from the “catastrophic consequences of a national blackout.”
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