Jim Stinson
" 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." . . .
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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