Outgoing Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge has heard the jokes and criticisms about his department’s color-coded terror alert warning system, but views it as an important part of his legacy as its first secretary. “I think it is a good system, though we should always be looking for ways to refine it,” Ridge told reporters who asked him about jibes over the system during his visit on Friday to New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “One of my recommendations is that it be carried forward,” said Ridge, who is leaving the Homeland Security post and met recently with successor designate Bernard Kerik, who was New York City police commissioner during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The five-tiered warning system has mainly stayed steady at yellow, the middle ranking representing an elevated risk. There have been several bumps up to orange for a high alert. Full Story
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