Talk Of Budget Cuts Leads To Inevitable NYPD CTU Puff Piece

Again, they act like this is a good thing:

Working largely on its own, the NYPD has transformed an unmarked Brooklyn warehouse into a counterterrorism center with a national and global reach. In a second facility in Manhattan, the department runs undercover operations, recruits spies and houses intelligence analysts.

Inside police headquarters is a high-tech situation room where rows of computer monitors give off a moody blue light and floor-to-ceiling television screens beam images from around the world. It’s staffed 24 hours a day with officers tracking local and international threats as well as the movements of as many as a dozen NYPD detectives on foreign assignments.

During a recent interview there, Mr. Kelly and the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for intelligence, David Cohen, were interrupted by a liaison officer calling from the scene of a suicide bombing in Israel to report on a new technique employed by the bomber.

Successes include the arrest in 2004 of two Muslim men on charges of plotting to blow up a subway station near the Republican National Convention, and the arrest and deportation in 2003 of two Iranian men who were filming a subway track in Queens, Mr. Cohen said. The former probe, in which one of the men pleaded guilty and the other received a 30-year prison term, was based on a year of undercover work by one of Mr. Cohen’s top detectives.

A subway station near the Republican National Convention . . . oh yeah, they’re talking about the two saps they entrapped back in 2004.