Put together all the bits you've seen in the newspaper and on television about how we determine the alert level. Now read this, which I got from The Talking Dog and they got from Unqualified Offerings.

The conclusion is they they're jerking our chain. I suppose one guy could have done it because he was stir crazy, but we have to assume that they're either giving us false leads so that when we do get a real clue we either don't recognize it or can't devote all our resources to it, or trying to frazzle our nerves with false alerts so the real thing has more impact. What's our response?