Or some heightened level. I wanna know what's being done to protect me when bin Laden says something's gonna happen.

Untortured, with a record of actually doing things.

I remember banks in New England spending a fortune on security, and picnickers in Washington not being allowed knives to cut their watermelons after some poor bastard gurgled something in order for the guards to stop drowning him.

What's being done for me now? What is Homeland Security doin' for it's money if there isn't a heightened level when The Man threatens?

Or is it all a farce? (Take yer pick. One's right, one's wrong.)