Posted on 12/31/2022 5:13:41 AM PST by karpov
Rolling blackouts during the recent cold wave has raised concern about the reliability of our electricity grid, but the growing possibility of deliberate sabotage may be a bigger threat.
The first sign America’s electricity grid might have become a target occurred in 2013, when a marksman disabled an electricity substation south of San Jose with more than a hundred long-range shots reportedly from a .50-caliber rifle. This was no casual prank or random act of vandalism. It was clearly planned, and the damage required nearly a month to repair.
At the time the FBI downplayed the incident, saying publicly that it didn’t think it was terrorist-related.
The mystery deepened with a series of Christmas Day attacks this year on two electricity substations in Washington state that led to blackouts for thousands of customers. Local authorities thought the attack was perhaps part of a burglary — thieves sometimes target electric-utility facilities for their valuable copper and other materials with a high black-market value — but there was a telling detail in the news stories on the incident: The local utility had received prior warning of a possible attack from “federal law enforcement officials.”
Which federal law-enforcement officials might those be?
In January a Department of Homeland Security report concluded that “extremist groups” had developed “credible, specific plans” to attack the grid. The report didn’t single out any particular group or motivation, saying a spectrum of extreme ideologies could have embraced the cause. According to one estimate, there have been more than 100 attacks on the grid this year.
The FBI has a long history of monitoring and infiltrating extremist groups and understandably remains tight-lipped about which groups it has under active surveillance.
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No thems good ol boys taking a few pot shots after getting liquored up/
Safe bet. Funded by the FBI, no doubt.
Eco-terrorists, AQ, ISIS, Russian GRU, Chinese PAP, Antifa, BLM, Hamas, nutcase, etc.
Pick one or any combination.
The same mentality that sets Forrest fires.
Leftards are mostly deranged.
Can’t be terrorists, the border is secure and the FBI, CIA and the Biden Administration have America covered.
And that folks is called sarcasm which needs to be spelled out for those who actually can’t comprehend it.
It’s either them or a government agency.
It’s all part of the overwhelm-the-system crowd. It’s so much easier to tear down someone else’s achievements than to build something great yourself.
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Really???
/Sarc
LOL
These attacks have all the earmarks of a Russian operation.
The author is in error.
San Jose is not America but rather the resigned state of California
Extremist groups? Brandon’s pals?
“Could eco-terrorists be behind the attacks on America’s power stations?”
the fascist hard left: “Hey, I know! Lets outlaw combustion for powering winter heating, hot water heating and all transportation and force everything onto the electrical grid ... and then easily destroy it because it’s so vulnerable.”
Will Biden’s DOJ use these electrical grid attacks as his Reichstag fire?
WINNER!!!!!
Is that what we call a rhetorical question?
I don’t think most of them are anti-electricity.
“”These attacks have all the earmarks of a Russian operation.””
“All the earmarks”? What are ANY of the “earmarks of a Russian operation”?
Yup, about a 99% chance.
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