Too true! As I've only been to NY once and know nothing about NYPD (except once having gotten to party for a few days with some NYPD vice officers, and I really liked both of them for the stand-up level-headed philosophy they held regarding law and order), I have to bow to your superior knowledge.
But if the DHS could "certainly make NYPD clam up" before hand, why coudln't it do the same afterward? News reports say that only a handful of New York "authorities" were notified, not even the Mayor ...
The whole thing stinks. Maybe they were notified -- it's why proof would be nice. If they were, the true mission behind the phony "fly by" was so secret and vulnerable that it couldn't even risk avoiding the panic of millions of New Yorkers. It stinks like low tide.
Make that “... the real mission behind the phony ‘photo op’...” etc. :^)
My theory is that NYPD realized after the fact that it had been had, and if the Mayor was on its case, all bets were off and forget about “secrecy.”
An interesting note - someone here posted that he worked for a bank in Lower Manhattan that had received a detailed notice and schedule of the event, or at any rate, whose main office had notified the employees with a detailed schedule. He thought it was because it was a TARP bank, although it’s certainly not the only TARP bank in NYC,and to my knowledge, none of the others revealed anything. Maybe whoever released the info didn’t like Bambi?
Also, it’s possible that more people knew about it than we have been told, but if the agencies had been told to keep it quiet, they either assumed that ALL agencies knew and there was no need to discuss it, or that there was some good reason for keeping it from the ones that didn’t know and everything would become clear at the end. Which, of course, it did not...