Napolitano to Revamp Terror Alerts

This past Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, appointed a task force to asses the much ridiculed terror alert system, which currently assigns colors to threat levels ranging from green to red. Created by the Bush administration after 9/11, the terrorist threat level is supposed to be an indication of the likelihood of a terrorist attack. The color system has been criticized for being too vague, not readily giving an accurate picture of the actual terror threat. Napolitano hopes to make the system less vague, more useable, and more reactive to actual terrorist information.