The feds are asking that if you “see something” they missed, like a crew of domestic terrorists shooting up a neighborhood transformer substation with automatic weapons, or something – then please “say something!” The FBI will be thrilled to take your call and agents are standing by. They have word there are “credible, specific plans” to hit the U.S. power grid.
Feds on high alert
Spooky egghead analysts working for the feds at the “Office of Intelligence and Analysis,” which is buried in the bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland [In-]Security, issued a warning bulletin advising that “extremist groups are plotting to target the country’s power grid.”
Associated Press got their hands on the memo warning “anti-Government extremists ‘have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020.‘”
As Joe Biden had the Pentagon start cutting the troop movement orders to send reinforcements to Ukraine, it’s not the Russians who are terrifying the feds. They’re more afraid of those pesky patriots again. There’s no fear from “not-Saudi” saboteurs strolling across the southern border in EMT jackets, the FBI clarifies.
It’s “Domestic extremists” who are “adhering to a range of ideologies,” like election integrity, that everyone needs to watch out for. Deplorables “will likely continue to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure.”
One insider cheerfully leaked to the AP that “they” feel, referring to far-right Trump supporters, “that disrupting the electrical supply will disrupt the ability of government to operate.” The feds are convinced that Boogaloo, the Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers and the Three Percenters are all set to conduct “attacks against the communications and electrical infrastructure.”
Chatter says “it will actually accelerate the coming civil war that they anticipate because it will disrupt the lives of so many people that they will lose faith in government.” The FBI needs to get a clue or buy a vowel or something. People lost faith in government a long time ago.
Extremists see US power grid as target, gov’t report warns https://t.co/nORyFvRolI
— KCRG-TV9 (@KCRG) January 25, 2022
Aimed at utility operators
The bulletin issued by the feds was passed out to “law enforcement agencies and utility operators” and dated Monday, January 24.
It specifically stated Domestic extremists “have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020” and extremists “adhering to a range of ideologies will likely continue to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure.”
At risk, the feds warn, are “more than 6,400 power plants and 450,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines that span the country.” While it’s really difficult to take out the national grid all at once, “they could still do damage and cause injuries.” Without inside help, they won’t be able to produce “widespread, multistate outages.” Still, a brick tied on the end of a rope can bring down a stretch of power or telephone line pretty easily, if you snag the low spot in the middle and you’re careful not to get zapped in the process. A BB gun can blow away ceramic insulators without a lot of noise or fuss.
DHS has been whining as loud as the FBI about the “heightened threat from domestic extremists” because they know how unpopular Joe Biden and his offensive liberal policies are.
The thing that gives the feds nightmares is that over the past couple years there have been test runs and some were successful. “The grid is viewed as a target, based on a series of incidents in recent years as well as online discussions in extremist and conspiracy-minded forums, because transmission lines and substations are often in remote areas and because outages may result in frustration and divisions within American society.”
There still haven’t been any arrests from the “sniper attack on the Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s Metcalf Transmission Substation,” even though it “could have disrupted power to Silicon Valley.” That one happened all the way back in 2014.
