1.   State and federal authorities hastened to point out that the threat report came from sources whose reliability is subject to question.

2.   The FBI said that only Texas was mentioned in the threat report.

3.   The Fort Worth district was notified of the threat report by local police but not by state officials.

4.   The security team alerted Arlington police, who filed a terroristic threat report, but no arrests were made.

5.   Their daily threat report is distributed to senior policy-makers, including the White House director of homeland security, Tom Ridge.