An East Tennessee lawmaker wants stronger oversight of the nation's telecommunications grid after a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville temporarily crippled infrastructure that caused 911 outages and a sudden unreliability in regional phone service.
The security of America's cyberinfrastructure was highlighted in the attack, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican from Chattanooga who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, told "Your World" "We need to make sure not only that we protect our grid from a software cybersecurity standpoint but we have to have physical protection for our grid," Fleischmann said. "There's a lot of talk about that out there.
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