The FBI Cut The NYPD Out of the Loop About the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Plans
New York City was supposed to be the next big show for the Boston Marathon bombers, a sort of blood ballet in Times Square planned spontaneously by the two crazy guys from the Caucasus when they were on the run and out of luck like the hapless homicidal characters in some Quentin Tarantino movie.
That they’d put the Big Apple in their sights was no surprise for the New York City Police Department or New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "When you catch a terrorist and look at a map in his or her pocket," Bloomberg has said for years, "it is always a map of New York."
What did surprise Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, according to well informed sources, was the delay of more than 48 hours from the time the Federal Bureau of Investigation first had this information confirmed to the time word reached responsible officials in Gotham. According to these same sources, not only was the NYPD kept out of the loop, so was the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, which includes NYPD detectives but is run by the FBI.
The Feds may well have thought that the threat to New York was over. There were only two principle suspects: 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a shootout, and his brother, 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev, wounded but answering questions in a Boston hospital. But officials in New York want, and indeed demand, the right to make their own threat assessments.
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