Stopped caring at Fox News.
If you trust anything these days..... you're suspect.
When the U.S. federal government made the decision to bring back the first two Ebola cases to the U.S., we were told "Emory is equiped to handle Ebola... it's one of a few hospitals with the facilities and the training to handle this level virus."
Now, with selective memory, possible Ebola cases show up at how many other hospitals? Howard? I wouldn't trust Howard University to draw my blood.... but it can handle a possible Ebola case?
If it's coming from an Obama administration official, whether it be State Department officials talking about Benghazi or Syria or Iran or Iraq or North Korea or Egypt or Ukraine......
or if it's a Secret Service official (read "Department of Homeland Security official") talking about fense hoppers in Washington or the border situation in Texas/Arizona/New Mexico.
or if it's Justice Department officials talking about "gun walking" or polling threats or racism in America
or if it's Department of Health and Human Services officials talking about the Affordable Care Act.
I have never seen an administration so hell-bent on controlling information at all levels for political reasons.
Last I checked (around December of last year) DHS component agencies had to clear news releases through DHS staffers. These are GS-9s or GS-10s, working for the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs for DHS, with little no no PR experience clearing releases for agencies with PR pros who have 20-30 years of non-partisan experience, all to ensure the administration isn't embarrassed by the truth.
This transformation took place in the first term of Obama's presidency. That was the state of things when I left the Coast Guard in 2011. And, according to my DHS friends at CBP, ICE, USCIS, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard, nothing has changed in the last three years.
So you want to trust what you read in the papers or see on TV? What source do you think most media outlets have? Official sources. And when they want to get information "on background" or "off the record" or unattributed.... who do you think THAT info is coming from? Sometimes the same folks, and sometimes the non-political PR pros who are tired of being dragged through the mud to achieve some temporary DC residents political objectives.
Don't trust Fox News, fine. But I do know I received a Facebook message from a female whose location was, I believe Syria, who said "hi" and nothing more. She wasn't connected to me in any way. And she wasn't connected to any of my friends. Was it a search for "Coast Guard" or "Coast Guard Academy"? I don't know. I don't really care. But lets not minimize threats either, either because we're used to sleeping on a secure base or because we're used to being shot at. If military families are vulnerable to fraud cases, are they any less vulnerable to being targetted? And if you're serving overseas, is that something you want in the back of your mind?