1.   As spending rose, congressional investigators in the General Accounting Office began to question existing agency threat assessments, many of which were not in accord.

2.   Bush, about six months into his presidency, was astute enough to ask for a threat assessment on the home front.

3.   But as they work in this new branch of the discipline called threat assessment, they find themselves in a world full of uncertainty.

4.   But when the laughs died down, the president talked about reading a daily threat assessment compiled by national security agencies.

5.   Federal threat assessments are sometimes kept secret to prevent foes from gaining possibly useful information from them.

6.   Fleischer responded to that criticism by saying that administration officials made accurate statements last year about the summer threat assessments.

7.   Government officials have tried to work with local communities when they issue threat assessments directly to local police.

8.   In many smaller police departments that have not been trained in threat assessment, the routine response would be to document the complaint, and leave it at that.

9.   Leaders also issued a jointly prepared threat assessment of drug trafficking.

10.   Local emergency management authorities in Ohio recently completed threat assessments of the likely terrorist targets in their jurisdictions.