That is wild. I did check some local news outlets and they are reporting this too. One local TV station said this was routine but one lawmaker commented in his 40+ years in the Kansas legislature, he's never seen anything like this. Also unusual was briefing the dems and reps separately. TBD. This is my state so thanks for the heads up.
CGato
Trust Kansas?
TOPEKA, Kan. — (AP) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is giving Kansas legislators extraordinary private briefings about undisclosed security issues.....
That is wild. I did check some local news outlets and they are reporting this too. One local TV station said this was routine but one lawmaker commented in his 40+ years in the Kansas legislature, he’s never seen anything like this. Also unusual was briefing the dems and reps separately. TBD. This is my state so thanks for the heads up.
CGato
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You betcha. We are neighbors, so let me know of anymore information you can find out. I think the separate briefing sessions was to totally avoid the ability for anyone to get to the bottom of it with FOIA requests.
There’s also the unexplained drone flights that I haven’t seen an explanation for-could be related or maybe not. TBD.
When it leaks, they will know the source.
Military personnel in unmarked white buses arrived shortly after noon to whisk House Democrats, and later Republicans, to Forbes Field in Topeka, an installation maintained by the Kansas National Guard. Senators will receive their briefing later this month.
"It turns out that the session has been in the works since at least December, according to a letter from the Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office to legislative leaders.
Still, senior lawmakers couldn’t recall an event quite like it.
“Even during 9/11, we didn’t do anything like this,” House Democratic Leader Tom Sawyer, a Wichita Democrat who has been in office three decades, said. “Totally not routine.”
But, after returning from Forbes more than two hours later, Sawyer painted a more benign picture.
“It was just a routine kind of security briefing, kind of an update on how they’re trying to keep Kansas safe,” Sawyer said.
Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Democrat, also described the event as a routine security"
Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article239282433.html#storylink=cpy
I would not be surprised if it involved espionage of agricultural technologies by the chinese, or sabotage by hostile groups, fire setting, disrupting communications and railways and that sort of thing. I did find it odd that they separated the Ds and Rs.... Humm Why would they do that???
Truly curious. What do you make of this?