[GOPrincess]

Sure is plausible to me.

I'd particularly feel better if the government *wouldn't* rush to tell us there's no sign of terrorism when something happens, but would wait until they *know*. I think the immediate reassurances, when it's pretty hard to imagine they have a lot of concrete information on hand, have the reverse effect of what they're hoping for.

[rwt60]

I think when they said "no terrorism," they meant no bombs, airplanes, grenades, or mortars, etc. What they cannot know is whether someone had taken control of a key computer and simply altered a few control settings. Did you see the post about the Valley Forge grid station operator wondering why the outage wasn't stopped sooner by the computers in NY and Canada? This cascaded way out of control too fast. I can't imagine the system being engineered to allow this, given the ability of computers to react quickly. But, maybe Homer Simpson was on duty today.