kneejerk reactions

Ok. I haven't investigated this enough, but my immediate gut reaction to this whole terror alert in NYC is that the fucking Bush administration is using the whole goddamned city for its political purposes. The latest news is that Bloomberg and the city police have rather different views of this information coming from the federal government.

The New Yorker published a long story about Raymond Kelly, who is New York's Police Commissioner, in July:
The Terrorism Beat

The article explores New York's own anti-terrorism efforts that are completely separate from those of the fed.