Washington, with its usual genius for failing to see the obvious, is in a quandary over a series of events that national security officials and the press perceive as disparate, unconnected stories:
--A dogwalker on the White House ellipse is attacked by Directed Energy Weapon (DEW);
--U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana and Moscow are attacked by DEW;
--The Colonial Pipeline, supplying petroleum to the eastern United States, is shutdown by Russian cyber-attack.