<HTML>Bei der Pressekonferenz des White House am 13.5.2005 wurde ein Sprecher des Präsidenten nach der Gefahr eines Angriffs/Anschlags in den USA durch elektromagnetische Pulse befragt und nach der Einschätzung dieser Bedrohung durch die Regierung. Die Antwort war eher ausweichend:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
Question: Scott, Senator John Kyl, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, has expressed his concern about the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the U.S. And my first question: What is the administration's assessment of that threat?
MR. McCLELLAN: Les [Vorname des Fragestellers], in terms of intelligence matters, I'm not going to get into that, but we take all threats very seriously. And that's why we've taken significant steps since September 11th to make sure we are doing everything we can to protect the American people from possible attacks. And the President will continue to do so. We have -- we've moved forward and we're already addressing many of the recommendations that the September 11th Commission put out before their report was even final. They had some additional recommendations that we've moved forward on, as well, and we will continue to do that.</HTML>
