The U.S. Homeland Security Department may abandon its eight-year-old system of assigning colors to terrorist threat levels that has been criticized by U.S. lawmakers and lampooned on “Saturday Night Live.”
The agency, which created the system following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hasn’t changed the threat color since 2006. The senior administration official who spoke about the prospective change today declined to be identified because the decision isn’t final.
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