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WASHINGTON, April 9 (UPI) -- House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Christopher Cox, R-Calif., has issued a statement questioning the FBI's unilateral threat alert.
The alert, which was issued on March 24 and indicated the Texas oil industry may be targeted by terrorists, came from the FBI alone, not from the Department of Homeland Security, which is supposed to be the sole agency to issue such threats.
"Clearly this is a very troubling development," Cox said. "Was it simply a one-time glitch or has there been a breakdown in communications between some of our key federal agencies?"
Part of the reason for creating the Department of Homeland Security was to integrate threat information and threat alert systems.
Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint advisory about the oil industry, but only after the initial FBI alert.
"Given the dangerous, uncertain times we live in today, cooperation among all authorities is more important than ever," Cox said. "We simply can't afford to be sending confusing messages to a nervous public."
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