PREPAREDNESS: Top general: Feds shrug off potential EMP disaster. “Michael Hayden, the retired Air Force general who ran the National Security Agency and the CIA, revealed on Tuesday that the administration has no plan to defend against an electromagnetic pulse — and isn’t doing much to come up with one. At a conference to discuss threats to the U.S. electrical grid, especially from a cyber attack, Hayden said that there isn’t a solution to handling an EMP attack, which can come from a solar eruption or nuclear bomb.”