Getting your player ready...
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is advising employees to be on increased alert beginning next month through next summer because of a series of upcoming high-profile events including the Olympics, both major parties’ nominating conventions, Election Day and the presidential transition.
A department spokesman said a draft internal document will soon be released citing a “period of heightened alert” between August and roughly July 2009, urging agencies to review emergency response plans and intensify coordination and intelligence analysis.
The move is based on the nation’s increased vulnerability to a terrorist attack, not on any specific or credible new threat information, spokesman Russ Knocke said.
