The U.S. government’s new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — that will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances for limited periods of time, sometimes using Facebook and Twitter.
Some terror warnings could be withheld from the public entirely if announcing a threat would risk exposing an intelligence operation or a current investigation, according to the government’s confidential plan.
National Terror Alert Update We will retire our current alert and launch a new “live alert” widget the week of April 18th. For those of you that currently display the widget on your website, you won’t have to do a thing. The code will automatically be updated and we will also be adding a new Facebook App.
