“On March 12, The Wall Street Journal’s energy reporter Rebecca Smith wrote an article highlighting the risk to the U.S. power grid if only nine of the country’s 55,000 electric substations were to be knocked out by terrorists during a hot summer. Smith noted that, “The study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that coordinated attacks in each of the nation’s three separate electric systems could cause the entire power network to collapse, people familiar with the research said.””

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2014/03/18/ferc-and-eei-criticism-of-wsj-for-recent-article-on-terrorism-and-power-grid-misses-the-point/

Ana Kasparian, Desi Doyen, Jimmy Dore and John Iadarola of The Young Turks discuss the Wall Street Journal Report and the response by FERC. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.