Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual." But in these times, we can't ignore anything.
By "these times" he presumably means the forthcoming elections. Don't forget it's election year in the US, so any opportunity to get names in the press (or, for appointed officials, get them known to the future electee) is eagerly grasped.
The fact that it plays straight into the hands of Al Qaeda or bankrupts the airlines along the way is neither here nor there.