Posted on 10/18/2005 3:06:19 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- Security clearances were taken away from two federal anti-terrorism employees as investigators look into allegations they warned family and friends about the threat against the New York City subway system three days ahead of the official announcement.
The workers were identified after government security officials began looking into the source for e-mails alluding to the threat that began circulating before New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went public Oct. 6. Security in the transit network was ramped up based on an overseas informant's claim there was a plot to bomb the system.
The e-mails apparently started with a relative of one worker and a friend of another, who passed on information warning against using the subway system, according to two federal officials familiar with the Homeland Security Department investigation.
The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the probe is ongoing, said the two federal employees who lost their security clearances were one employee of the Coast Guard and a former Coast Guard captain who now works for the Transportation Security Administration.
A spokesman for Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard and TSA, declined to comment.
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But Sandy Berger, who has been convicted, still has his clearance, from what i've heard.
Take a step back. Notice the story didn't bother including that the question of whether or not the info was secret has still not been confirmed (per FNC). This all may be mute if it wasn't hush-hush. That said, I'm make darned sure my family didn't ride the subway no matter what.
With TSA and HSA being close siblings of FEMA, NSA and CIA, I suspect everything is classified unless otherwise noted.
Good deal on yanking clearances. If you can't keep a secret, you have no business being in the loop.
BIG BTOTHER has arrived
Sandy Burglar lost his security clearance for three years....
The emails were turned in to the NY papers, I believe.
If so, not as bad as I thought, but still scary that someone would go to all that trouble to trace the emails back.
Well, that's what his sentence included, but I've heard it has not yet been yanked. I could be very wrong.
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