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WASHINGTON - Goodbye danger defined as yellow, orange and red.
The Homeland Security Department is looking to scrap the five- tiered color-coded terror warning system in favor of a streamlined one with as few as two alerts. The post 9/11, Bush-era system has been criticized as too vague to be useful in communicating the terror threat to the public, either ignored or the butt of jokes.See the full content of this document
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Color-Coded Terror Warnings On Track to Disappear
One option under consideration is to go to two threat levels instead of five: elevated and imminent. When the threat level would change to imminent under the new model, government officials would be expected to be as specific as pos...
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