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Working on the case. the government has taken control of ukraine as part of their parliament. the prime minister is promising she will run for president in new elections shech. she got out of a hospital prison earlier today. now back to regular programming. an attack on the california power plant last april got almost no press until my next guest brought it to the front pages. rebecca smith from the wall street journal joins me now from san francisco. rebecca, you were all over this, and, you know, it's ten months later. with little or no press, other than yours, and virtually nothing done...

The prime minister is promising she will run for president in new elections shech. she got out of a hospital prison earlier today. now back to regular programming. an attack on the california power plant last april got almost no press until my next guest brought it to the front pages. rebecca smith from the wall street journal joins me now from san francisco. rebecca, you were all over this, and, you know, it's ten months later. with little or no press, other than yours, and virtually nothing done in terms of an arrest, why do you think this went so unreported until now? >> i think because t...

Of the utility whose substation was attacked. and that's because they and others are very afraid of copycat attacks. and they're, of course, always afraid that if they discuss an incident, it will telegraph to malefactors way they can attack the grid. >> i don't mean to put you in a spot, but was that a concern for you and the journal in publishing the details about how this attack happened. did you worry that you might inspiring people to try this around the country? >> there's always a worry. we don't want to provide information to someone who hadn't thought about it an means to launch an at...

>> i was struck by that giant reward that was announced by at&t in this case, obviously at&t was not the only agency or company that was affected by th. but when they got their cables cut, they seemed quite upset about it. $250,000 reward hasn't been enough to shake out suspects but it shows they took this very serio seriously. i wonder if this reflects that industry has freaked out about this, even if they don't want to talk about it too much in order to avoid inspiring copycats. >> at&t has had cables cut before. they really don't like it. but you didn't hear a peep out of the utility whose ...

Is not over. i hate to be sitting here kind of trying to be a fear monger on a friday afternoon. this is a very credible threat, much larker than what we know about it because they don't want to be specific but there is specific target here, but they're closing ing 21 embassie be sure. copycat attacks coming up on 9/11, whether you want to say the anniversary of 2001 or 2011, coming up on the end of ramadan, a time of celebrations. you wouldn't know it looking at egypt or syria, during ramadan, the holy month of fasting there shouldn't be war or fighting and there has been in these countries w...