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."
Bloomberg suggested again yesterday that politics unduly influenced how the department doled out funds. "Everything in Washington is driven by politics, that's one of the problems with our system," the mayor said. . "
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