Is this shit actually happening? Tomorrow?!
Cabal starts getting rounded up and they become desperate. Cabal decides to go scorched Earth, unleashes Chem\bio\nuke assault to bitterly strike back, perhaps enough of a distraction to provide cover for an escape.
EBS: Get out of Boise! Don't come to Boise! Attack is imminent! All without relying on the complicit forms of communications we rely on now like TV news or Twitter who may censor such a message.
That's my thinking at least.