'Black Swan' in Baltimore, intel sources say
No coincidence it occurred where Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"
My first thoughts upon hearing the news yesterday morning of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing and falling into the Patapsco River just beyond Baltimore Harbor is, “when does a container ship just crash into a bridge, and one as important and as historic as this — the 1.6-mile bridge on the I-695 corridor spanning the very spot where Francis Scott Key wrote the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ in the wake of America repulsing the British after a 24-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry some 210 years ago — and send it collapsing lock-stock-and-barrel into a river?”
And besides being a critical piece of civic and cultural infrastructure it is a critical piece of economic infrastructure serving as one of two major ports — the other one in Charleston — and commercial artery transporting every manner of materiel and equipment vital to our economy. According to “Good Morning America” it served the 9th-largest port in the U.S., more than 12 million cars crossing over the four-lane bridge last year. And it had, until 1:52 a.m. on the morning of March 26, 2024, the world’s third longest span of truss bridge measuring 1,200 feet—which means it had no hinges or joints, and stood with three or more supports. When the cargo ship approached and hit the supports it was outside the water channel which experts noted was highly irregular and got up their antennae to foul cyber play.
So, no. It did not make sense. Unless you know what Lara Logan’s intel sources tell her point blank: 100% it was a cyber terror attack — a Black Swan, if you will— and that it is “catastrophic for the American people” — “death by 1000 cuts” — the phrase that was coined after 9/11, and that we are in an “undeclared war.” She said the people who are talking to her would never have done so but the situation is so dire, they must. Country comes first.
Jack Posobic of Human Events reported on Steve Bannon’s War Room, the 5 ‘o clock show, that officials are tight-lipped as to who was managing the vessel. It was evidently a ship for hire. Who hired it? Americans need to know.
And, if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck…
Let’s just say, I trust that House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and colleagues will take the requisite action the findings of their extensive investigation into divided loyalties demand so that we, too, can answer affirmatively the words of the “Star Spangled Banner,” per below, including the last: “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave… O’er the land of the free… And the home of the brave?”
Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd
At the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch'd
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?
Postscript: And, here is Grant Stinchfield’s reporting from April 1, “The Ship With Multiple Backups Never Should Have Lost Steering,” that lends credence to the hunch that this was no accident.
Update: On April 15, the FBI opened a criminal investigation into the bridge collapse — the “nothing to see here” stance the Biden administration adopted in the immediate aftermath, evidently a bridge too far.
Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends. She recently finished writing a book about the life of Ernest Hemingway, viewed through the prism of faith, being published by Rowman & Littlefield Christmas 2024.
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