Insanity is the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded terrorism alert system, which tells you nothing except that people are capable of coloring
“„“The American people should be provided with as much detail — consistent with national security — that is focused on specific locations and sectors at specific risk,” she said. They should also be confident that “alert states, if elevated, will be lowered back to normal” within 15 days, absent credible intelligence of a continuing threat, she said.
“„Specifically, the task force said the country should redefine the current threat level — yellow — to serve as a lower baseline, called “guarded.” Orange would be redesignated as “elevated risk,” and red would remain “high alert,” for an imminent or ongoing attack.