National Alert System

Wow, who would have thought that after 9.11, the ramming through of the very un-Constitutional Patriot Act, and the DHS report of us being domestic terrorists the GAO would be telling us this: GAO: National alert system 'unreliable' A failure to test and modernize the U.S. emergency alert system leaves doubt whether the president would be able to communicate with the American people during a terrorist attack or natural disaster, congressional investigators said Thursday. A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) described the existing Emergency Alert System (EAS) as "antiquated" and "unreliable" and said that eight years after the…