FBI: No 'credible threat' to inauguration weekend

Law enforcement officials said Tuesday that they have "no credible, corroborated threats to any of the activities" surrounding President Obama's second inauguration next week, although federal authorities are still planning for any contingencies.

"We will have our SWAT team, pretty much all of our specialty teams will be available and on standby, to include [weapons specialists], our dive team, our intelligence team — working around the clock — our hostage negotiators [and] our special agent bomb technicians will also be available," Debra Evans Smith, the FBI's acting assistant director in charge of its Washington field office, told CNN.

Federal and local law enforcement — including representatives from the Secret Service, FBI, U.S. Capitol Police, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department and the military — will coordinate their inauguration-weekend activities from a centralized hub in suburban Washington.

"They can give us information and then we can ensure that everybody's reading from the same script," agency spokesman Ed Donovan told the network. "And one of the goals for us is to provide as close to real-time information as we can to all these agencies."

More than 20,000 law enforcement officers aided in the inaugural ceremonies in 2009, and a similar number are expected to be deployed this year.