That's "might" "uncertain accuracy" etc. You draw an inference that is not supported. It reads like the point was only that some curious actions were being taken just prior, and what it all means is not conjectured. So are you saying that Kerik -- the NYC Police Commissioner -- was certain to have been kept 100% out of the loop of even vague strategic threat assessments (like the Aug. 6 PDB) and chatter? If so, then you underestimate greatly just how important New York is in the nationwide operational management of counter-intelligence/counter-terror -- to the CIA and FBI (both with key staff in the city for those tasks prior to 9/11) as well as the role of the NYPD intelligence section (that's why the NYPD was the first non-Federal law enforcement agency in the nation to gain access to INTERPOL databases this past summer).
I'm drawing an inference that's not supported?
So are you saying that Kerik -- the NYC Police Commissioner -- was certain to have been kept 100% out of the loop of even vague strategic threat assessments (like the Aug. 6 PDB) and chatter?
No I didn't say that. The article didn't say that either.The article says;
Pro-Israel. On an oddly-timed trip to Israel only a little more than a week before 9/11, he spoke on the subject of terrorism with Public Security Minister Uzi Landau and Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki and sought to, in Kerik’s words reported publicly:"demonstrate my deep solidarity with the State of Israel." (http://www.ourjerusalem.com/news/story/news20010902.html). The trip was "oddly-timed" because sometime that summer it was hurriedly pushed up to around Labor Day after originally being scheduled for early October (which might have significance in light of various reports of uncertain accuracy about an Israeli warning about the looming attack and/or activities just before 9/11 in the city’s emergency command center in WTC Tower 7 [movements of equipment in particular]).
If the writer of the article meant to imply that Mr.Kerik learned of a threat through regular channels and just happened to visit Israel earlier that year he failed miserably, because I just don't see that there. What I see there is a thinly veiled Zionist conspiracy theory expanded to include Bernard Kerik.