A Short Summary of the Opposition
(from Dr. Peter Vincent Pry’s book, The Power and The Light)
—“Nuclear EMP attack was a ‘politically incorrect’ threat during the Obama Administration (2008-2016). President Obama did not want to acknowledge that North Korea or Iran became nuclear existential threats to the American people during his watch.”
—“Previous administration holdovers and Deep State bureaucrats who are EMP non-experts and have long opposed national EMP preparedness for reasons ideological, political, and personal, not least stupidity, are largely in charge of “implementing” President Trump’s EMP Executive Order.”
—“The deeply erroneous Obama-era EMP report by the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee (JAEIC) and the more recent so-called “Tri-Labs EMP Report”, both written by a small number of non-experts parroting each other, continue to circulate, misinforming U.S. officials and damaging national security. Both reports are highly classified, apparently to protect them from scrutiny and criticism from real EMP experts, while being invoked to prevent mid-level officials (who lack the security clearances) from protecting their assets from EMP.”
—“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “National EMP Strategy”, drafted at the direction of Senator Ron Johnson’s excellent Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, underestimates the EMP threat and is deeply flawed.”
—“Bogus analysis that grossly underestimates natural and nuclear EMP threats by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a lobby for the electric power industry masquerading as a think tank, is being funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and wrongly treated by DHS as analytically sound, even though the EPRI Reports have been critiqued and proven erroneous by the EMP Commission and the USAF Electromagnetic Defense Task Force. EPRI’s preposterous bottom-line: Nuclear EMP attack will be no more consequential than other localized or regional blackouts with which utilities have experience — contradicting legitimate EMP studies by real experts including the Congressional EMP Commission, the U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Defense Task Force, the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the National Academy of Sciences, and every other major study by the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government over more than 50 years. EPRI’s ‘happy face’ EMP reports are reminiscent of the cigarette industry’s untrustworthy ‘independent laboratory assessments’, allegedly proving there is no causal linkage between smoking and lung cancer.”
—“The rampant incompetence of DHS and DOE is manifest in that they give greater credibility to EPRI non- experts than to the EMP Commission and its Chairman, Dr. William Graham—the foremost EMP expert in the Free World. Chairman Graham also served as President Reagan’s White House Science Advisor, ran NASA, was on the defense science team that discovered the EMP phenomenon, and has been protecting U.S. military systems from EMP since 1963.”
—“President Trump’s EMP Executive Order responds to the work and recommendations of the EMP Commission, yet the U.S. Government’s implementation of the EMP Executive Order proceeds with almost no involvement or consultation with former EMP Commissioners and staff.”
—“Dr. William Graham, and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, warn that America faces an existential threat from EMP in part because of disinformation from the liberal mainstream media (‘Prepare For The Worst’ RealClearDefense.com, October 21, 2019): ‘Not only has the EMP Commission faced a long uphill battle advancing national EMP preparedness against a resistant federal bureaucracy, but against an irresponsible press that often misinforms the public with absurd claims…’ For example, the Washington Post published ‘Trump Issued An Executive Order To Prepare For An EMP Attack. What Is It And Should You Worry?’ (March 29, 2019), written by four college students posing as ‘instant EMP experts’ that includes numerous errors of fact and omission. The latest soldier in the ignorant army of liberal reporters disinforming the public and belittling the EMP threat, is POLITICO’s Sarah Cammarata in ‘Is It Lights Out for Trump’s EMP Push’ (November 12, 2019).”
“The strategy of pretending to do something, but really doing nothing, and then throwing money at the threat when it happens, will get millions of Americans killed when there is an EMP.”