Anti-terror aid cut may be payback for "embarrasing" Homeland Security

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Anti-terror aid cut may be payback, sez Mike

BY CELESTE KATZ, GREG WILSON and MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

The Department of Homeland Security's decision to slash the city's anti-terrorism funding by 40% may be payback for getting embarrassed during a terror alert last year, Mayor Bloomberg suggested yesterday.
Last October, Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced a massive security alert on the subways after receiving intelligence information that they described as a "specific threat" to New York City.

Officials at Homeland Security quickly - and publicly - cast doubt on the intelligence that prompted the alert, but were later humiliated when it was discovered that two department officials sent private e-mails warning their friends and family of a possible subway attack.

"Whether this is a little bit of getting even with us for embarrassing them, I don't know," Bloomberg said on his weekly WABC radio program. "I can't attribute motives. What I do know is that we are disappointed."

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