[Luke Skyfreeper]

(If threats are real, not just Jihadi BS), Attack to follow shortly thereafter.

Feds must be pretty confident that all of the threats are just jihadis farting in the wind, else they wouldn't drop the alert level, don't you think?

[Mossad1967]

Not to sure?

[oceanview]

I wouldn't go that far, he may not want to be at orange during the SOTU. they can lower the alert level while still doing the same things domestically that have been going on for the last several weeks: increased airplane security, NEST teams, etc. all I am saying is: don't discount the political calculations here.

[Domestic Church]

I suspect the threat level has been dropped in the public eye only and that for all intensive purposes, those who actually function relative to the color code are still doing so though some may be in civilian clothing now. I think NY and a few other cities had been functioning in code orange before the federal announcement.

Dropping the code may be a modus operandi of an entirely different or opposite meaning.