http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/10/high_alert_for_nyc_subways_though_threat_is_questionable.php All comments for High Alert for NYC Subways, Though Threat is Questionable en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/10/high_alert_for_nyc_subways_though_threat_is_questionable.php#comment-70424 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/10/high_alert_for_nyc_subways_though_threat_is_questionable.php#comment-70424 Comments Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:29:21 -0500 <p>Homeland Security is useless. From their response to Katrina to their idiotic color code system (which has quietly been shelved) to the fact that Wyoming gets more anti-terrorism per capita than New York state, they've shown themselves to be this gigantic, inept bureaucratic monster. I'm no apologist for the mayor and the NYPD, but I trust them a whole lot more to protect me than Homeland Security. Notice how Homeland Security's first reaction to the Mayor's announcement of the subway threat was to basically say that they just pass on the information and it's up to the cities to decide what to do with that information. The mayor was kind of stuck in a bind. What if he had done nothing about the new intelligence and something had happened? He'd forever be blamed. It's better that the NYPD do something and it turns out to be nothing, rather than vice versa. </p>