STAR Threat Level Reduced: Threat Level Continues at HIGH

The STAR Spacetime Threat Assessment Level has been reduced from SEVERE to HIGH.

The decision to reduce the threat level was based on the non-specific nature of AMP data.

AMP is anomalous mental phenomena, the power of human intuition to anticipate the future.

Late last year, AMP data predicted a potential for attacks against the ground facilities at airports. This was several months before the revelation of the plot to destroy the JFK International Airport.

The threat level remained at SEVERE over the summer months. A failed bomb attack took place at Glasgow International on the 30th of June, following failed bombings in London. This resulted in the British authorities raising the threat level to CRITICAL, the highest level used in the United Kingdom.

The STAR Threat Level anticipated the airport bombing and remained at SEVERE from the end of May, 2007, until today.

In addition, unconfirmed conventional sources reported warnings of possible nuclear devices moving about the United States.

AMP-sources suggested that any concerns coming from the Department of Homeland Security involved simulations of a nuclear event, although one possible device "involving a Plutonium core" was reported as inoperable.

A conventional source later reported the alleged devices were tactical munitions from the 1950s.

AMP-sources also reported two possible intended targets for the devices: one was the Port of Long Beach, California. The other location was in the Great Lakes area.

Shortly after the Port of Long Beach was identified as a potential target site, Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, arrived at the sister port of Los Angeles, to speak about the nuclear threat to the twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles:

"Earlier today, I spoke at the Port of Los Angeles, which is the busiest port in our country. 44% of all U.S. imports enter through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. So how much money are we talking about? Simply put, $295 billion. That number should tell us just how critical our ports remain to our economy. Clearly, if terrorists want to devastate our economy, then from a cost/benefit perspective, one way of doing that is to launch devastating attacks on these essential vehicles for commerce and trade."

The AMP data continued to be ambiguous, but appeared to reflect a RAND Report about an attack against the Port of Long Beach:

In 2004, the RAND Corporation performed a study for the Department of Homeland Security
to examine response strategies following a catastrophic terrorist attack. For this work, a detailed scenario was constructed, describing the effects of a terrorist-detonated nuclear explosion in the Port of Long Beach, and a series of strategic decision making games were executed with leaders from the government and the emergency response community.

The similarity of AMP-sourced data to the RAND Study suggested that the original report of "attack simulations at the DHS" was correct.

The second location, a general target near the Great Lakes, was identified by three different AMP-sources. An unconfirmed conventional report suggested this location may have been the target of a thwarted attack of an unknown nature.

One of the problems for AMP-sources is the failure to receive feedback about the AMP-identified target locations.

Another recent non-specific AMP-sourced area of concern involved the Potomac.

New York City remains another location of concern.

AMP-sources are used to "enhance" conventional intelligence, without any assumption of the veracity of the AMP data. The enhancement is intended to provide creative input that conventional data might otherwise overlook.