PVP#65 Catherine Herridge
Author of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits, Catherine Herridge is an award winning national correspondent for the Fox News Channel. Catherine was the first network correspondent assigned to the Homeland Security beat in 2001. She now covers intelligence, the Justice Department as well as the Department of Homeland Security.
Catherine and her Fox team of investigative journalists traveled across the U.S. and to Yemen to complete a six month investigation into the American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who is linked to three of the 9/11 hijackers, the Fort Hood attack, the attempted bombing Christmas Day, the failed attack on Times Square as well as the cargo printer bomb plot in October 2010. The Washington Post recently described the documentary as “an explosive hour.”
Herridge’s investigative reporting showed that critical information about al-Awlaki and his mysterious return to the U.S. in October 2002 was likely withheld from investigators with the 9/11 Commission and Congress. Herridge’s reporting, which prompted letters from Capitol Hill, raised new questions about the cleric and how the first American on the CIA’s kill or capture list slipped through the FBI’s grasp one year after 9/11.
Catherine, who is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia School of Journalism, began her career as a London-based correspondent for ABC News. She has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Qatar, Israel, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, Guantanamo Bay and New York City on 9/11. She is one of the few reporters to sit in the same military courtroom as the self-described architect of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators.
Also joining us for this episode is Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a Senior Fellow with EMPact America, who is perhaps better known as the author of Operation Dark Heart. Click here to listen to other episodes when Lt. Col. Shaffer made appearances on EMPact Radio.
UPDATE: Dr. Pry asks everyone to help us push H.R. 668, The SHIELD Act, through Congress so that true protection of the electric grid is made a high priortiy. It is easy to send a message to Congress with our web site. Just go to www.GuardTheGrid.com to send a message to your own Representatives and Senators.
Dr. Pry says that it also very important this week to make a telephone call to Congressman Ed Whitfield, who is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Representative Whitfield’s telephone number is (202) 225-3115.
When you call Representative Whitfield’s office, you’ll be able to give his staff a message, and it will only take a couple minutes–we know it is quick, because we’ve made these calls ourselves.
The message Dr. Pry asks you to give to Representative Ed Whitfield is “Please, Congressman Whitfield. This could be the single-most important act you do in your Congressional career. You can save the lives of more than 200 million Americans from an EMP catastrophe, either from nuclear terrorists or a great geomagnetic storm, and you can protect the city from a catastrophe caused by a radio-frequency weapons. Pass The SHIELD Act, that’s all you have to do, so that it can pass through the House.”
Dr. Pry added that Congressman Whitfield is a good man, a patriotic American, and if he hears from enough of us, he’ll put the SHIELD Act at the head of the line of legislation in that committee. Join EMPact America in our efforts. Go to www.GuardTheGrid.com and send a message–even if you have already sent one before–and then take a couple minutes to call Congressman Whitfield to ask him to support The SHIELD Act, H.R. 668.
