Comparing the classification of the election as “critical infrastructure” to similar designations for Wall Street and the nation’s power grid, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson urged Americans to get behind his department’s proposal. Gee, that’s reassuring – they already have all this power over America’s power and financial systems, yet that still isn’t enough for them:
“‘We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid,’ Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.
‘There’s a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure,’ he said at a media conference earlier this month hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
DHS has a vital security role in 16 areas of critical infrastructure and they provide a model for what the department and Johnson could have in mind for the election.
DHS describes it this way on their website: ‘There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.'”
A White House policy directive adds, “The federal government also has a responsibility to strengthen the security and resilience of its own critical infrastructure, for the continuity of national essential functions, and to organize itself to partner effectively with and add value to the security and resilience efforts of critical infrastructure owners and operators.”
At the time, Johnson did not mention specific security issues, but the FBI has since cited one hack and another attempt.
Johnson also said that the big issue at hand is that there isn’t a central election system since the states run elections. “There’s no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process,” Johnson said.
Source: Washington Examiner
You can see DHS Head Johnson announce their intentions here.
Illegal
Get lost
He working out side of what his job is, why don’t we get rid of his job he’s not doing it anyway there’s nobody in Obama top positions that I would trust!!!!
B******t-each state should appoint police at every voting station..!!
And they think we dont know. Well once this is tried they are not going to believe how fast this turns on them.
Oh I bet that will be fair and honest. We are talking about putting one the most corrupt outfits in charge of the voting.
bad move… guess who is in control of HS… not real Americans..
DHS is a$#%&!@*organization.
An act of treason
WHAT WAS THAT, A CITY WITH 950, 000 PEOPLE ALL VOTED FOR DEMOCRAT OBAMASS AND NOT ONE REPUBLI CANS? COME ON GIVE ME A BREAK..