Cryptome has obtained and put on line Homeland Security Operations Morning Briefs – 27 September 2004 to 14 January 2005 (“FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY”). They detail a large number of security incidents ranging from the potentially serious to the puzzling or picayune.
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Is that for real? Because if so… it seems that one with a lot more time on his or her hands than I have could do some sort of analysis relating these briefs to the DHS colored alert levels. You know, see if there’s a correlation.