Reply #6: One of the little-known facts about New York City is that... [View All]

at least since the John Lindsay years, it has been quietly rumored to operate its own (very shadowy, super clandestine) intelligence service. The story I heard -- and I have to preface this by saying it was never more than a tale circulating in vino veritas at the Lion's Head (a journalists' bar) after the Kent State Massacre of 1970 -- was that Lindsay feared Nixon would indeed suspend the constitution; in defense, it was alleged, Lindsay secretly set up an off-the-books group to spy upon the spies: a handful of implicitly trusted NYPD and Wall Street types versus the FBI, the CIA and the Plumbers, with the collected information going directly to the mayor. Lindsay -- or so the story went -- believed a Nixon coup would trigger a second American Civil War and was determined avowedly Leftist New York City would play a critical role in restoring constitutional governance. Beyond that -- given the role of the City as world financial center and UN headquarters -- it is only reasonable both NYPD and the mayor's office of economic development would have strong police and intelligence ties abroad, especially (given the City's huge Jewish population) to Mossad: today the most skilled and effective intelligence agency on earth. The point being, this -- NYC running its own spooks -- would explain both the alert and the fact Bush's homeland gestapo is calling the alert invalid.