If the system had been called a "National Alert", since most other alerts are typically "Regional Alerts", then I suspect a lot of the sour taste and politics i

If the system had been called a "National Alert", since most other alerts are typically "Regional Alerts", then I suspect a lot of the sour taste and politics in this would neatly go away. Calling it a "Presidential Alert" suggests it's a direct line of communication with the President, when the system is clearly managed by an agency with the authority to issue these alerts.