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No More Orange Alerts

Jan 27, 2011
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is expected to announce the retirement of George W. Bush's color-coded terror alert system that always seemed like an easy way to terrify the public. In its day, the color-coded threat indicator only hit red (severe) once, and never dropped below yellow (elevated).