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...bulletin to California's detailed advisory-left many people feeling quite the opposite: confused, afraid and in some cases downright angry. "We're drinking all the coffee we can," Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said with a large dose of black humor. "How alert...
...wonder, then, that a number of cops and other public safety officials all over the country are so grumpy. They have been on the highest levels of alert and are being forced to deal with more false alarms than real information; something may be better than nothing, but not by much. Though the faa did impose a limited no-fly zone for private planes around nuclear power plants, the government did not counsel many other specific measures to the 18,000 law-enforcement agencies that received the advisory. "I wish I could say the FBI is doing a better...
Meanwhile, we also must have a supply of pertinent information about the situation at home. As anthrax attacks continue, the public is understandably nervous about the state of homeland security. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s repeated warnings for Americans to remain on high alert and to expect future terrorist attacks are, however, highly unhelpful. They seem only to increase fear without offering any practical advice. Of course, the public knows that there is a strong possibility of future violence—now it needs effective methods to tackle that threat. Indeed, the repeated warnings are only serving...
...great time to be in charge of a large city. On the one hand, nobody tells you anything: When John Ashcroft issued his general terrorism alert this week, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory found out from reporters. The federal government doesn't tell mayors before announcing these alerts, and it doesn't give specific information about what mayors should do. On the other, everybody has something to tell you: McCrory's fire department is getting 30-40 anthrax-related calls a week. "Tuesday night in a suburb outside Charlotte, someone reported a plane dropping white powder over a children's center...
...There's a good political reason for issuing the latest alert, and to keep repeating them. The FBI and CIA were caught flat-footed by the Sept. 11 attack. The hijackings were a bolt-out-of-the-blue strike. And there will be another attack, again a bolt out of the blue. Everyone is sure of that. So count on both agencies to sound the alarm at the slightest provocation, so no one can say they didn't warn us ahead of time...