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Department of energy, anybody to intervene and try to get some action. he was unsuccessful. and his agency did not have the power to order the kinds of improvements that very likely are needed. >> the improvements would be done by the industry, presumably because they felt it was in their own interest to do so, or because they were required to do so as a regulatory matter, if there isn't an agency that would be in charge of actually making these improvements, is there an agency or could there be some sort of instruction from the federal government that the industry has to meet certain standard...

Story. >> thank you so much. >> has anything like this happened before in this country. either an attack of this type that has had this type of effect. >> i haven't spoken with anyone who recalls any incident, anything like this, the comprehensiveness of the attack was unusual, the fact that they got away was unusual. the fact that months later we don't know their identities, it's extraordinarily unusual. >> who is responsible for ensuring the security and the resilience of the grid as critical american infrastructure? >> one of the problems, rachel is, there is no single federal agency with c...

Take down the grid, this is a huge problem, he says. joining us now is rebecca smith, an energy reporter for the wall street journal, thank you for being with us. congratulations on this scary story. >> thank you so much. >> has anything like this happened before in this country. either an attack of this type that has had this type of effect. >> i haven't spoken with anyone who recalls any incident, anything like this, the comprehensiveness of the attack was unusual, the fact that they got away was unusual. the fact that months later we don't know their identities, it's extraordinarily unusual...

Intervene and try to get some action. he was unsuccessful. and his agency did not have the power to order the kinds of improvements that very likely are needed. >> the improvements would be done by the industry, presumably because they felt it was in their own interest to do so, or because they were required to do so as a regulatory matter, if there isn't an agency that would be in charge of actually making these improvements, is there an agency or could there be some sort of instruction from the federal government that the industry has to meet certain standards that are tougher than what they...

Improvements that very likely are needed. >> the improvements would be done by the industry, presumably because they felt it was in their own interest to do so, or because they were required to do so as a regulatory matter, if there isn't an agency that would be in charge of actually making these improvements, is there an agency or could there be some sort of instruction from the federal government that the industry has to meet certain standards that are tougher than what they have to meet now? >> one of the proposals is that there might be action by congress to let's say anoint perks that the...