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Homeland Security

DHS Adds Bulletins To Terror Alerting System, Warns Of Inspired Extremists

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

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DHS Adds Bulletins To Terror Alerting System, Warns Of Inspired Extremists

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Photo: DHS

To provide more flexible and timely communications with the national public regarding potential terror threats, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is adding another component to its National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) aimed at better keeping Americans informed as terrorist threats evolve.The addition of “bulletins” to the NTAS will allow DHS to “achieve the objective of more flexible, timely, and useful communication with the public regarding terrorist threats through the introduction of an additional component of NTAS to accompany the…

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