Captain Obvious from Homeland Security raises terror level

Yahoo! News, via AP, reports that "The Bush administration is raising the terror alert to code orange for mass transit in the wake of London explosions, U.S. officials said Thursday." Is this what we're paying billions of dollars for? Telling us to watch out on public transportation after there was a major terrorist attack at another metropolitan subway? How did we get to the point where a) this kind of information qualifies as news and isn't instantly ridiculed, or dismissed as irrelevant by the press, as it should be, and 2) our government has the nerve to say things like this as if it is acting in an official capacity? This is damage control, ass-covering, and nothing else. I live in a corrupt, police state, and am lied to by my elected officials daily on matters that concern life and death.