{"id":431,"date":"2005-10-18T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/that_whole_sharing_classified_intelligence_thing.html"},"modified":"2005-10-18T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T15:33:26","slug":"that_whole_shar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/that_whole_shar.html","title":{"rendered":"That Whole Sharing Classified Intelligence Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gentlemen, it’s not a freakin’ Scruples<\/a> question (“Your security clearance allows you access to intelligence detailing a terrorist attack on the city in which your son lives . . .”)! The federal employees who E-mailed everyone they knew in the New York metropolitan area warning them not to ride the subways last week have been stripped of their security clearance<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two federal employees have been stripped of their security clearance for allegedly tipping friends and family to the New York City subway terror threat, sources said yesterday.<\/p>\n

William Ross, a retired U.S. Coast Guard captain now working for the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Safety Administration, was being questioned for allegedly alerting his son of a possible terror attack – three days before Mayor Bloomberg and the FBI went public with the warning, sources said yesterday.<\/p>\n

“As some of you know my father works for Homeland Security, at a very high position and receives security briefings on a daily basis,” his son, Nick Seligson-Ross, who runs a dance troupe, wrote in an Oct. 3 E-mail – one of two electronic messages sent out to big shots in the city’s arts and business communities.<\/p>\n

“The only information that I can pass on is that everyone should at all costs not ride the subways for the next two weeks,” the E-mail warned some New Yorkers before Bloomberg was fully briefed on the threat.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The second tipster, who has high-level security access, has been transferred to a division that does not deal with sensitive information as the investigation continues, sources said.<\/p>\n

The tipster’s information allegedly found its way into an E-mail sent out by production company owner Tony Micocci Oct. 5.<\/p>\n

“I have just received a most disturbing call from one of my oldest friends … who, by dint of his position, has access to the highest level of intelligence traffic,” Micocci wrote. “He called with a very specific caution to not enter the New York City subway system from Oct. 7-Oct. 10.”<\/p>\n

That E-mail circulated in the New York arts and business community a day before the public was notified of the threat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentlemen, it’s not a freakin’ Scruples question (“Your security clearance allows you access to intelligence detailing a terrorist attack on the city in which your son lives . . .”)! The federal employees who E-mailed everyone they knew in the New York metropolitan area warning them not to ride the subways last week have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}