Kash Patel

How vulnerable is our power grid?

It's probably the most vulnerable thing we have.

And people just don't pay attention to it because...

I don't know if because it's not sexy or cool to talk about or cool to work on, but our power grids are like 60, 70 years old.

It's going to be cool when the lights don't go out.

Exactly.

And people are like, no, that just happens in that movie Die Hard or something, Die Hard 4, whatever it was.

I'm like, no.

I mean, it's, one, not that hard to shut off a power grid through a cyber attack.

And once you get it down, to get it back online, I mean, just think of it.

I don't want to get into the numbers.

There's not a lot of these things that control the electricity supply to the country.

For people who don't know what a power grid is, it's literally just like a switch that says, you got electricity over here, we're going to take it in and give it to you over there.

It's just a relay system.

We haven't upgraded those in forever.

And I'm not talking just physical infrastructure.

I'm talking how do we protect it from cyber attacks from the CCP, from Russia and Iran and other bad actors.

And we don't really have a focus here because that's an intel directive.

And to pull back on it, the NIPF, the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, is a president's

rack and stack of what they want the intel community to focus on.