Americans, ehre is the lie in taht article:

FTA:"Protecting critical infrastructure like our power system must be a top priority," Cooper said at a news conference. "This kind of attack raises a new level of threat. We will be evaluating ways to work with our utility providers and our state and federal officials to make sure that we harden our infrastructure where necessary."

That is not a new threat whatsoever. it is exactly the damage that Gen Michael hayden used throughout the Bush adminsitration as an example, claiming that US police forces were stopping the attacks every single time they were planned, long ebfore the exectuion stage.

Cooper is lying. Directly lying. The attack was very obviously coordinated on social media - we've even seen some of the posts about it by people involved. It is very simple for the FBI and NSA to  crack this case. They had all the data while it was in planning stages. We know that, because that's the basis of US justifications for surveillance.

Cooper is also claiming it is "new" so that the attack is NOT labeled a terroist attack. Cooper is supporting the homophobic violence. Subby is correct that under the law, it was terrorism, but I hope nobody thinks that the article is calling it terrorism. The article is full of officials, who are actually in charge, reducing the criminal investigation to "shootings" rather than teorrism.

johnphantom: AdmirableSnackbar: If only we had an inappropriately-authoritarian-named department of the federal government whose job it was to protect the country from terrorism...

There are no domestic terrorism laws to enforce.

//Patriot Act doesn't count; no teeth

What the farking fark?!