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If there’s one thing ‘Law and Order’ has taught everyone is that when the fuzz have you: clam up and don’t say a word. We’re pretty sure police departments, and PR folks alike, follow the same rule when confronted with the probing questions of a reporter. But for some, a ‘no comment’ answer from D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier is more than enough suspicion to raise the alarm.

In a recent on-air interview with WTOP, Police Chief Lanier was more than a bit laconic when it came to answering questions on any pending terrorist threats on D.C. Lanier went as far to say that, “obviously if there was anything that was protected information that I was aware of, I wouldn’t comment on it anyway.” But throwing Occam’s Razor out the window, intelligence sources were brought in to confirm that there are “rumblings” of possible attacks.

So what does that mean for us? Raising the threat level? A run on duct tape at our local hardware stores? Pretty much nothing. Even when Lanier has done her job by not speculating on any possible threat and raising a panic, sometimes we can still find the yellow lining in a cloud of “no comment.”