I bet they're sitting on the 4th floor going over their daily threat assesment briefings and someone has reported:

"there has been a spike on pilot chatter since this morning... Independent sources are telling us it could be related to the AE."

"The AE? We weren't going to put the AE out till [redacted]. it's a good thing they're not concentrating on the [redacted], if word gets out about that I'd expect the chatter to be higher than it's been since the SLI days."