[JustPiper]

Sarge, thank you for your quick response. Let me introduce you to our best and tell our best that you will be such a great asset to this thread.

When you get time Sarge you would not believe some of the finding's here and were we are headed. We also notify DHS,FBI etc when something is noteworthy. Many things have been posted on this thread weeks before they come out on the news. Like yesterday the news validated the 2 AirFrance Flights, the one AeroMexico and the plans for crashing them into possibly a nuke plant etc and Vegas on NYE. Well buddy, we had this on this very thread weeks ago.

So again, I am glad you are here!!!

My first question to you is why does it seem Tom Ridge ignores us?

[Old Sarge]

My first question to you is why does it seem Tom Ridge ignores us?

Short answer is: You're not ignored; you're just not heard.

VERY Long Answer is: Try to picture to yourself, all the traffic that goes across FreeRepublic in the course of a day. Can one person follow it - ALL of it? At once? Can't be done - so that's where we analysts come into the game. Folks watching different areas for different things. Each mission has a unique CCIR list - Commander's Critical Information Requirement. It's a Green-suit term, but it applies to this as well.

The analysts comb the airwaves, and the Web, and take in reports from other agencies, and all that gets lumped into the common pot. It's then, the staffer's call to see what gets passed up the chain, or over to the other agencies. "Hey George, did you catch this report off the wire?" That kind of thing. Some of it's informal, others are passed through channels.

My mission is MSCA - Military Support of Civilian Authority. We're the guys who detail the National Guard assets to the states in case of emergency - weather, natural disaster, 9-11 redux, etc. As such, we have traffic monitors, Web surfers (me), and duty watches set up to catch it all.