{"id":6044,"date":"2011-04-21T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2011-04-21T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:35:20","slug":"where-threat-alerts-meet-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6044","title":{"rendered":"Where Threat Alerts Meet the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2004-08-09-tapes-vegas_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today article<\/a> published 8\/9\/2004: &#8220;A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department obtained video  surveillance tapes suggesting terrorists were targeting Las Vegas  casinos but authorities never alerted the public as they discussed  whether a warning might hurt tourism or increase the casinos&#8217; legal  liability, internal memos show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=134\">blogged about it<\/a> at the time, basically speculating that when the rubber hits the road &#8230; when there is a credible threat against a specific city, tourist attraction, or shopping mall &#8230; we, the public, will never be told.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the business of the USA is business.<\/p>\n<p>Will anything change with the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2011-04-20-government-terror-alerts-warnings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">new terror alert system<\/a>?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re being told:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An elevated threat alert, the lowest warning, would be issued if a credible threat were determined, but it likely wouldn\u2019t detail any timing or terrorist targets.<\/li>\n<li>An imminent threat alert, the highest notice, would be triggered if there were a credible, specific and impending threat or ongoing attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The implication is that if a specific threat is received &#8230; let&#8217;s say, for example, that intelligence and counter-terrorism officials learn of an upcoming suicide bomb attack on a big casino in Las Vegas &#8230; an imminent threat alert would be issued stating that casinos in Las Vegas are being targeted and that tourists should stay away until the all-clear is sounded.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think anything like that will ever happen?\u00a0 Would you be interested in some <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6018\">1500 thread count Egyptian cotton bedsheets<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a USA Today article published 8\/9\/2004: &#8220;A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Justice Department obtained video surveillance tapes suggesting terrorists were targeting Las Vegas casinos but authorities never alerted the public as they discussed whether a warning might hurt tourism or increase the casinos&#8217; legal liability, internal memos show.&#8221; I blogged about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-current-events","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}