XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JUNE 24, 2003 12:17:35 ET XXXXX
FEDS SEE ORANGE FOURTH OF JULY
The Department of Homeland Security will likely raise the nation's terror alert, once again, to high status -- orange -- for the Fourth of July holiday, top government sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
But there is a growing concern within the Bush Administration over the effectiveness of yo-yoing the status of terror alerts.
"It appears [raising the alert] will be the prudent thing to do," one source with direct ties to the decision-making explained from Washington on Tuesday. "But the raising and lowering has to be justified, or we risk the danger of becoming complacent, where a high state of alert carries less urgency."
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