When the Brass Goes Ballistic

[Guest guest]

New York Post

Sadly, this is the second time behavior of top NYPD brass has caused

a serious problem. Last month, alleged anti-Semitic remarks by

Chief of Department Esposito at an incident in the mainly Hasidic

neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn caused a full scale riot. I

think we can, and should, expect more from the top. Who on this list

could have gotten away with such behavior?. .

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New York Post

FED UP

By MURRAY WEISS

April 29, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE

One of the nation's foremost al Qaeda experts abruptly quit his new

NYPD post because Commissioner Ray 's top anti-terror

intelligence czar launched into a foulmouthed tirade against the FBI

- where the lawman had spent his career, The Post has learned.

The stunning incident involving renowned former FBI agent

- considered the bureau's pre-eminent authority on Osama bin

Laden - came just days before he was scheduled to formally start

working at the NYPD.

Sources said was attending a morning briefing session at

Police Headquarters at the invitation of Deputy Commissioner of

Intelligence Cohen and Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism

Sheehan, the two honchos who had lured him to join the NYPD's

expanding global anti-terror empire.

, a 32-year FBI veteran known at the bureau as " The

Professor, " took his seat at the conference table along with Cohen,

Sheehan and several others, including a current official of the CIA,

where Cohen had worked for three decades.

The meeting barely started, sources say, when Cohen and Sheehan

started to discuss the NYPD's anti-terror initiatives and plans.

The discussion prompted to innocently ask Cohen whether he

had spoken with the department's detectives on the FBI-NYPD Joint

Terrorist Task Force who had global contacts.

Cohen responded with derision and swear words, saying at first he

didn't want to talk with the 150 NYPD detectives because he did not

want to deal with the FBI's terror division chief, Chuck Frahm, whom

he cursed out.

suggested Cohen needn't attack people personally, and that

Frahm was a friend and former colleague.

Then Cohen really erupted, broadening his assault to include the

entire bureau - railing about the " 'f---ing bureau' this and the

'f---ing bureau' that, and going on about how the FBI was always

withholding information, " a source said.

Cohen was essentially saying, " F--- the FBI, we do what we want! " the

source added.

After listening to the brutal diatribe, pushed his chair away

from the table, calmly stood up and announced that he was resigning -

before he ever technically started - and walked out.

Ironically, , who declined comment, was the first FBI agent to

team up with the CIA in 1995, when they created " Station " to

specifically zero in on bin Laden.

" My guess is that this account is being peddled by someone who's

unhappy about the outstanding relationships between the FBI and the

NYPD at the highest levels on down, " an NYPD spokesman said, adding

that two top former G-men with 60 years of combined experience

presently work for Cohen.

An FBI spokesman said, " We continuously strive to maintain our strong

working relationship with the NYPD. "

On Thursday, with Commissioner at his side, FBI Director

Mueller made a speech at the Hilton in Midtown that heavily

emphasized the good relations between the NYPD and the bureau.

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