The employees for these electric companies are not "government employees" as has been insinuated in some of these posts. Entergy is a private company, and First Electric is a Cooperative, of which I am a member. I'm not saying that the perpetrators are not employees of the companies....but I don't see how this has anything to do with the government shutdown. The earlier incident happened before the shutdown anyway.

I have an acquaintance who is an FBI employee and he is actually working on these cases. He said whoever set up the lines in an attempt for the train to topple the transmission towers knew exactly what they were doing. They were definitely not run of the mill tweakers or criminals.