Friday, February 2, 2018

Questions Raised About Risks of Putting 200 Congressmen on One Train

Jim Stinson
It's likely not prudent to put so many senators and representatives on the same vehicle, say national security experts

Wednesday’s collision of a garbage truck with an Amtrak train carrying 200 or more Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia is raising questions about whether sufficient thought was given to security considerations.
"The collision, which killed the truck driver and caused a number of minor injuries to people on the train, “should trigger a review of measures designed to protect government officials from attack and similar tragic accidents,” Sebastian Gorka, former strategist to President Donald Trump and author of the New York Times best-seller “Defeating Jihad,” told LifeZette on Thursday.
"Gorka said terrorists specifically look for soft targets of opportunity with great symbolic value. A gathering of senators and representatives on an unguarded train traversing rural areas could be an inviting example of such a target.
“ 'Terrorists look for targets of high symbolic value, and both al-Qaida and ISIS have publicly instructed their followers to attack high concentrations of unarmed civilians,” Gorka said." . . .

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