AN OLD REPORT AND A TYPICAL GOP LACK OF RESPONSE

The NewsMax hysteria over Iran is based on Iran trying to make an EMP attack on the United States. The threat of an EMP was originally reported in 2004 and NEW Congressional hearings were held on July 10, 2008. Here's an excerpt from the head of the commission on the EMP threat¹:

The Commission reviewed current national capabilities to understand and to manage the effects of EMP, and concluded that the federal government does not today have sufficient human and physical resources and assets for reliably assessing and managing EMP threats, and the U.S. is rapidly losing the remaining technical competence and facilities that it needs in government, in the national laboratories, and in the industrial communities.

An EMP attack on the critical infrastructures is a serious problem, but one that can be managed at reasonable cost. A serious national commitment to address the threat of an EMP attack can lead to an integrated national posture that would significantly reduce the payoff for such an attack and allow the United States to recover from EMP and from other threats, manmade and natural, to the critical national infrastructures. A failure to do so will not only leave the critical national infrastructures that are necessary for our society to function at risk, but will also place our ability to conduct military operations in severe jeopardy.

Ok, it's 4 years after the original report and the criminal Bush regime has done almost nothing about this threat.

¹Federal News Service

July 10, 2008 Thursday

HEARING OF THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE;
SUBJECT: ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP);
CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE IKE SKELTON(D-MI);
WITNESS: DR. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM, CHAIR, COMMISSION TO ASSESS THE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ATTACK;
LOCATION: 2118 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.

SECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING

LENGTH: 15015 words

HEARING OF THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE SUBJECT: ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) CHAIRED BY: REPRESENTATIVE IKE SKELTON
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(D-MI) WITNESS: DR. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM, CHAIR, COMMISSION TO ASSESS THE THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES FROM ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ATTACK LOCATION: 2118 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 10:00 A.M. EDT DATE: THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008