Reply #19: This isn't a "sex" scandal; it's a "homeland security" scandal. [View All]

[Minstrel Boy]

Why was Cipel, a foreign national, allowed such a supposedly sensitive post?

After all, Newark saw the departure of Flight 93, and the anthrax letters were mailed from the state.

"When the FBI issued a terrorist alert last week, it was apparently Cipel who first contacted McGreevey, not New Jersey's newly appointed terror czar, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Flicker. Even before McGreevey's election in November, administration sources said, Cipel toured the state – visiting refineries, nuclear plants, bridges, and seaports – to make an inventory of security needs." http://www.bergen.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=2564257

No-tinfoil-required alarm bells ought to be ringing right about now.