Is It Easy To Attack The U.S.?

Author Brad Meltzer will speak about his experiences being recruited by the Department of Homeland Security's Red Cell program at a book reading Tuesday. Brown/Getty

Author Brad Meltzer Was Recruited In Government Agency, 'Horrified' At How Easy It Is To Attack U.S. -- New York Post

I was a real-life secret agent. I didn't have the hand-grenade cuff links or the poison-dart pen, but in 2004 I was recruited by the Department of Homeland Security for its Red Cell program.

As they described it - and as The Washington Post later reported - Red Cell was the government's way of trying to anticipate how terrorists would next attack the United States. To do that, the government brought together what they called "out-of-the-box thinkers."

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My Comment: Bottom line .... America's defense starts at home and in our neighborhoods. If there is a danger or threat .... rarely will government agencies be the ones who spot it first .... in fact, the ones who will spot it first will be your average American, and it will be him or her who will stop it first.