These searches are the product of evidence that has been gathered in the investigation since the attempted Times Square bombing and do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States."
VOA: standard.2010.05.14
The White House says the bomb was never an "active threat".
Despite fits and starts in the peace process, the insurgency in the Central African Republic remains an active and real threat to the government of President Francois Bozize.
They engage in active research on new threat actors, new methodologies, and new vulnerabilities exposed by the types of targets that are being selected by cyber criminals and state actors.