U.S. to Unveil New Terror-Alert System for Home-Grown Threats

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

The U.S. will modify its warning system to alert citizens and companies about terrorist threats, replacing a two-tiered system with one it says is better suited to modern threats such as the attacks in California last week.

The challenge is to effectively communicate potential threats that are part of a new pattern of attacks by terrorists -- whether inspired or directed -- by foreign groups, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a conference in Washington Monday.

“We need to do a better job of informing the public at large what we are seeing,” Johnson said. “We’ve moved to a new phase in the global terrorist threat that involves not just terrorist-directed attacks from overseas but terrorist-inspired attacks here in the homeland and other countries.”

The revised system comes as the Obama administration is struggling to uncover terrorist plots being planned under the radar of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. A mass shooting in San Bernardino, California last week left 14 people dead while an attack in Paris last month killed more than a hundred people. In both cases, the assailants evaded law enforcement as they plotted their attacks.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-07/dhs-to-announce-new-u-s-terror-alert-system-johnson-says

[Agony]

1. Code Pink in the HomeLand!

very effective.

[jtuck004]

2. "Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded..."

[warrprayer]

3. dear God

[truth2power]

4. How about not bombing the crap out of people ...

their kids and their wedding parties and their hospitals and turning their entire countries into rubble.

What we're already doing isn't working, is it? So, let's just double down. Yeah, that's the ticket.

This country is run by psychopaths!

[Javaman]

5. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027429243

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Oh, good,

'cause the last one worked so well.