AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
terror alert levels
Color-Coded Terror Alert System to be Replaced [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL News...
US to Issue Terror Alerts Via Twitter, Facebook [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL News...
Opinion: What Can Soccer Teach Us About Fighting Terrorism?
By Lionel Beehner - AOL NewsYou have to hand it to the Russian government. Just as the United States scrapped its widely mocked color-coded threat-level system, Duma lawmakers have adopted a near replica in response to a suicide bombing at the Domodedovo Airport that killed 40 people. Moscow has not grasped the sheer inanity of such a ridiculous system. Like American lawmakers after 9/11, they seem to be more interested in creating the appearance of being tough on terrorism than in actually keeping Russians safe and secure. But could such efforts actually make them, and us, less safe? Consider what Israeli scientists ...
Color-Coded Terror Alerts to End, Says Homeland Security
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAfter nine years and countless jokes at its expense, the Department of Homeland Security will retire the nation's color-coded terror threat alert in favor of a new public warning system. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce details of the new system Thursday. The old procedures will be phased out beginning next week and changes will be fully implemented by the end of April. A task force appointed by Napolitano in 2009 to review the effectiveness of the rainbow-hued alert levels concluded they should be scrapped. "Task Force membership believes the color code system has suffered from ...
US Scraps Color-Coded Terror Alerts
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- Late-night TV hosts better get their jokes in quick, before the color-coded terror alert system that's been the topic of so many punch-lines is gone for good. U.S. officials say they're phasing out the five-tiered alert scheme created in 2002 under the Bush administration, after years of criticism from lawmakers and citizens alike who say the system is vague, needlessly alarming -- or just plain silly. In March 2002, "Saturday Night Live" lampooned the system in a skit in which an actor portraying a Homeland Security official described it as "six shades of beige." Conan ...
Terror Alert Hysteria: A Real 'October Surprise'?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 4) -- The month has barely started, but has the U.S. electorate already been the victim of a dreaded "October surprise," a cynical manipulation of the media to focus on a late-breaking election story that ensures establishment victory? That is what troubles conspiratorial-media mogul Alex Jones -- host of his own radio show and purveyor of websites Infowars and Prison Planet -- and his collaborator, writer Paul Joseph Watson, who posted an article Monday on the latter site called "October Surprise: Terror Hysteria Recycled In Election Ploy." In it, Watson argues that the European ...
France on High Alert After Tips About Terrorist Attacks
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Sept. 20) -- France was on high alert today after threats of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida's North African branch and reports that a female suicide bomber had planned to strike somewhere in Paris. French radio station RTL reported today that France's intelligence service was tipped off Wednesday night that a female suicide bomber planned to blow herself up in Paris last week. Despite a daylong search, however, investigators came up empty. Le Monde also reported today that French officials received information last week that al-Qaida in North Africa had an increasingly "anti-French ...
Tom Ridge: I'm Not Second-Guessing Bush Terror Alerts
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTom Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times, isn't even out yet and already the former Homeland Security chief is backing off some of its claims. In the book Ridge says that shortly before the 2004 election, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a "vigorous" discussion, pressured him to raise the national terror threat alert level after Osama bin Laden released a videotaped message, suggesting they did so for political reasons. Ridge writes that @he rejected raising the level because bin Laden had released nearly 20 such tapes since 9/11 and the latest ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Romneys Love Fancy World of Dressage Riding
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- More Stories »
- The 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
- Know Your Enemy
- Cannes’s Mischief Maker
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics