The controversial security and surveillance website Cryptome.org has obtained a "threat assessment" document for inauguration week [Zip file], prepared jointly by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and others, looking at the dangers to Barack Obama and to the spectators at tomorrow's swearing-in. (As noted at Swampland, it's an unclassified document, intended for use by local law-enforcement officials.) Cryptome also has numerous photographs of the security arrangements already in place here. In summary, it's good news: there are "no credible reports" indicating a threat from international terrorists, while "no organized domestic terrorist group, to include white supremacist and anarchist extremist groups, is known to have expressed a direct threat to the President-elect or the inauguration." A Mississippi man was arrested on Friday in connection with the online posting of a deeply nasty but fundamentally unconvincing threat to assassinate Obama -- he hadn't figured out how he was actually going to get to Washington in order to carry it out. White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan included, have so far limited their response to acts of symbolic protest: black armbands, and the US flag flown upside down.
