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???
So they could leave some things out when they talked to the dems?
Video article By KAKE news regarding the Security Briefing KS. Homeland Security. (additional information)
http://www.kake.com/clip/14985865/kansas-lawmakers-attend-secret-security-briefing-10-pm
(Taken from the discussion. Video is about 2-3 min.)
The briefing was done behind closed doors at the request of the Attorney General. (KS? US? does not say.)
KS. Lawmakers were warned that if they go on trips overseas that are paid for by foreign governments that they might be approached by individuals who might be engaging in espionage or theft of technological intellectual property. They also discussed cyber security and how to protect things like voter rolls and other other confidential information.
Scott Schwab, KS Secretary of State discussed IT security that they will be implementing and how to educate County Clerks to protect the cyber security in the voting process.
They will be putting proprietary systems in place to protect the polling place from things like viruses, etc.
(In my KS polling place you have a touch screen, but it also produces a paper read out of your vote. You verify it and deposit it directly into a box attached to the machine in case they need to go back and manual tabulate the votes.)
Vigilant Citizen
Gervais speech was a controlled demolition
I did find it odd that they separated the Ds and Rs.... Humm Why would they do that???