Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he will announce “in the coming days” a new threat warning system.
It would replace the current National Threat Advisory System, or NTAS, which itself replaced the original color-coded system. The problem, Johnson said, is that NTAS is based on having a specific, credible piece of intelligence of a plot.
“We need to get beyond that to go to a new system with an intermediate level,” Johnson said. “We need a system that adequately informs the public about what we are seeing.”
As an example, he noted that he announced heightened security at federal government buildings a year ago after the shooting attack on the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa, even though there was no known threat of something similar in the US.
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