Gothamist – by Christopher Robins
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly attended a farewell speech for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday, raising further speculation that he may be a top choice to succeed her. But it wasn’t just Kelly’s presence that rekindled the belief that the Obama administration is seriously considering the commissioner for the post: Vice President Joe Biden gave Kelly a fist bump on his way from the lectern, which just a few years ago, might have attracted attention from the NYPD’s Demographics Unit.
As we’ve detailed before, choosing Kelly for a federal post is puzzling because he has spent his tenure as commissioner clashing with the federal government. Within the last month a federal judge ruled his use of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional and a book by two AP reporters showed that the NYPD profiles innocent people based solely on their religion.
“Our sin is to have the temerity, the chutzpah, to go into the federal government’s territory of counterterrorism and trying to protect this city by supplementing what the federal government has done,” Kelly recently said.Also: the “chutzpah” to praise whistleblower Edward Snowden for no other reason than to insult the Justice Department, which had in turn suggested that the NYPD needed a federal monitor.
No word on whether this Ohio woman will become the next Secretary of Transportation.
Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
http://gothamist.com/2013/09/08/biden_gives_ray_kelly_fist-bump_at.php
“NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly attended a farewell speech for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday, raising further speculation that he may be a top choice to succeed her.”
Damn shame it wasn’t a eulogy instead.
The Port Authority is taking everyone’s safety & security in jeopardy and undermining all the counterterrorism measures that have been put in place by allowing crimes such as the illegal policy of desposing lost valid passports in the garbage that are found in the Port Auhority Bus Terminal. Now just imagine the damage that a terrorist cell could do with those valid lost passports or an identity theft ring.
Also, the Port Authority turns a blind eye to the rampant theft of lost property from inside of the Port Authority Bus Terminal’s Lost & Found Dept. by their supervisors. In this age of global terrorism and rampant identity theft, the Port Authority is a reckless shameful disgusting embarrassment of bi-state transportation agency where it comes to safety & security in this area. To ignore this gaffe would be a crime on all levels of local, state & federal government, who have the power to put a stop to this madness. Action must be taken against these corrupt incompetent criminals in the Port Authority before another terrorist attack takes place & more innocent lives are lost due to their utter disregard about our safety & security not to mention their disgraceful feeling of self entitlement to patron’s lost property at the PABT. Google “Donna Lebourne abc news,”
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=9105280
& “found, stolen, trashed by PA.” and see the crimes & corruption for yourself.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/found_stolen_trashed_by_pa_V4RMICgPyy2bhAVzDkW9EL