With such strong qualifications for office, who would have <$NoAd$> imagined such a thing could happen?
Officials in Indiana and Washington said they were dumbfounded by a statement U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, of Sarasota, made about a terrorist plot to blow up a power grid in Indiana.
During a speech to 600 people Monday in Venice, Harris either shared a closely held secret or passed along secondhand information as fact.
A staff member of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the nation’s intelligence operations, said he had heard of no such plot, and Indiana officials in the county where the power grid is located were at a loss to explain where the information originated.
In an interview Tuesday, Harris would not reveal the name of the mayor who told her about the threat or provide further details.
She said in the speech that a man of Middle Eastern heritage had been arrested in the plot and that explosives were found in his home in Carmel, a suburb north of Indianapolis.
Carmel Mayor James Brainard and a spokesman for Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan said they had no knowledge of such a plot. Brainard said he had never spoken to Harris.
This piece in the local paper has more on her shenanigans.
