A recent National Journal exposé has revealed that Chinese military hackers caused America's most horrific electrical grid failure in August 2003, resulting in the deaths of nearly 950 U.S. citizens plus nearly a hundred more in Canada.  More recently, just this February, China's military remotely destroyed Florida's power grid, an attack that caused 23 deaths (most of them Canadians who were wintering in Key West) and displaced three million people without the power they needed to heat their homes during one of the most bitter winters they had experienced in the last 47 years.

The National Journal made this revelation after consulting with Tim Bennett, a former president of the Cyber Security Industrial Alliance who confirmed the Chinese military attacks on critical U.S. infrastructures.  Mr. Bennett refused to name the "government spooks" who gave him top secret knowledge of the Chinese attacks.  But I am able to reveal that I was Mr. Bennett's primary source for U.S. intelliegence information.

I was still wearing an Air Force uniform when the White House directed our agency to provide Mr. Bennett with (very limited) access to our top secret details on Chinese military hacking activities.  Back when he was at the helm of the CSIA, Mr. Bennett erroneously believed an unclassified report that blamed overgrown trees for the August 2003 disaster.  I was sent to Mr. Bennett's office to personally reveal classified documents to him that proved the Air Force concocted the "overgrown trees" explanation in order to avert a deadly cyber war between the U.S. and China.

I personally explained to Mr. Bennett that if the media had learned the true reason for the August 2003 catastrophe, the public outcry might have pressured Congress to open up a "third front" in the war on terror at a time when the Air Force didn't believe it could win decisively in a cyber war with China.  In fact, our top brass inside the Pentagon feared thousands of brainiac Airmen like me would lose their lives, and the resulting brain drain would cripple the Air Force cyberspace mission for a decade or longer.

I personally assured Mr. Bennett that the Air Force was working feverishly to coalesce its compumetric weapons arsenal (into the formidible asset known today as Cyberspace Command).  "We know China will continue to attack the United States," I told him, "and we can't stop them from remotely invading our sovereign territory at this time.  But in a few years we'll be ready to take them on."  I boldly predicted that "once the Air Force achieves cyber supremacy, we'll be able to 'delete' a million Chinamen for every thousand people their hackers kill in America."

Thanks to my efforts while under orders from the White House, Mr. Bennett now realizes it is absurd to believe that an overgrown tree can wipe out the entire North American power grid.  I appreciate Mr. Bennett's efforts to conceal my identity from the National Journal, but I'm retired now and I can afford to step out of the shadows to validate his claims of Chinese war crimes against the United States.