[Diana in Wisconsin]

Amish pranksters? ;)

[strider44]

Great political statement if you ask me. Says it all about our government right now.

[rjsimmon]

with knowledge of the bridge

Are they saying there may be folks in Brooklyn and Manhattan that are unaware of the bridge?

[CivilWarBrewing]

Those were bleached flags, and entirely appropriate given our current ‘leader(less)ship’.

[rjsimmon]

Mighta, couldabeen...

[dforest]

Shame they didn’t spend this kind of energy on the Boston Bombers. Surely the NSA would know.

[snappahead]

Banners??

[Sarah Barracuda]

The white flags represent Obama bowing down to our enemies and surrendering to Iran and other terrorist countries. We have been surrendering since November 2008 when idiots elected a Communist douche bag

[Don Corleone]

“TRANQUIL” America.

[PA Engineer]

"For someone to compromise that gate by going around it and continue to the top of the tower, have the right size cover to put over the light, there's some indication of some good deal of pre-operational planning, perhaps some indication that they have experience climbing in construction or in bridgework, or that they may have actually been up there before looking at the dimensions," John Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence, told the paper.

Wow. You can't pull anything over this guy.

[txrefugee]

Yes, they had the technical expertise to cover the flood lights on each end of the bridge with a big foil roasting pan as they switched the flags!

Obviously, someone was sleeping on the job and wasn’t monitoring the video feed that showed people on the bridge at 3:00 AM. So much for feeling safe in NYC after 9/11.

[golf lover]

Imagine the consequences if the perpetrators were Muslims like the 9/11 terrorists with explosives. Where the hell was security?

[gunnut]

I find it so funny that they act like because they knew how to get to the top was the smoking gun that this was pre-planned. How about the fact they had 2 bleached out flags to replace the flags that were up there made. I am guessing you don’t just go to the local hardware to purchase that.

[WayneS]

The teams' plan to evade police in four patrol cars included aluminum lasagna pans they used to cover the floodlights aimed at the flags during the switch...

This is a direct result of New York's notoriously weak lasagna-pan-control laws....

[nascarnation]

The lack of message just seems lame.

For that much work it needed to make a statement.

Like “Impeach Baraq”

or

“Obama for Grand Caliph of ISIS”

[nuconvert]

Tight security.........NOT

[GeronL]

Could it be a terrorist “go” signal?

[FrdmLvr]

The teams' plan to evade police in four patrol cars included aluminum lasagna pans they used to cover the floodlights aimed at the flags during the switch at 3:29 a.m. Tuesday.

Lasagna pans, eh?….I suppose they're scouring Little Italy, then.

[reed13k]

mmm ... lasagna... as far as I got.

[windcliff]

Some suggest it was in reference to the moon landing.