Cry wolf enough and eventually you may be right. Notice every single heightened terror alert has been timed to some un-popular environmental roll back or attack on juniors credibility. I do have to hand it to this administration though. They do succeed in driving the bad news to the back pages of the papers. So far it's been a good tactic. If nothing happens then it's because they are doing a good job of protecting us. If something happens then it's "I told you so" and "our intelligence is on the ball". The only thing you can lose is the peoples trust in the color alert system which isn't much of a system anyway.