A Critical First Step Toward Protecting the Grid

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

On Monday, the House of Representatives is expected to take up an important legislative initiative.  It’s called the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (or CIPA).  If enacted, it would require the federal government to develop a strategy for “hardening” the U.S. electric grid from various threats that could take it down – with devastating effects on our country and people.

The good news is that CIPA is supposed to prompt the mapping of the grid’s myriad vulnerabilities and the identification of necessary corrective actions.  The bad news is that this bill won’t – in and of itself – actually protect anything. 

Still, we need the first step that the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act prescribes to be approved by Congress and signed into law at the earliest possible moment. 

We are not only on notice about the threat; we’re on borrowed time. 

This is Frank Gaffney. Learn more at SecuretheGrid.com.