Subway Terror Threat News May Have Been Leaked Ahead Of Public Disclosure : NY1

The Department of Homeland Security is looking into whether or not agency officials tipped off family members about last week's alleged terror threat against the New York City subway system before the public learned about it from the mayor.

A report in Thursday's Daily News says people received emails about the potential threat as early as October 3rd, three days before Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement about the suspected plot.

Very bad for Homeland Security. In public they cut Bloomberg and Kelly off at the knees -- for being alarmists. In private they were sending out warnings to insiders.

Good for Bloomberg and Kelly. If this had come out and they had not taken the cautionary steps they did, it would have been bad.

Bad for Fernando Ferrer because it its means that that some in Homeland Security were privately very sure that this was a serious threat and not a hoax.

You're Fired (and maybe you go to jail) for the person or people who sent these emails.