NYPD in the Conspiracy Biz?

Some A-hole tries to pollute the United Nations with a Chemical Warfare Agent. What do you do?

Tell the world over CNN et al. that it was just some "old" canisters of nerve gas that were found "by accident" as an office "was being cleaned", Uh Huh!

Tell them that although we shut down a big chunk of city around the U.N. that NO ONE IS IN DANGER! Tell 'em there was NEVER any danger!

Tell everyone with a microphone that it's basically a non-story. Some dope brought these back on a trip from Iraq a bunch of years ago and, oopsee!! forgot they were in his desk!

Then a few days later: Oh, did we say nerve agent? Nah! It was just a commercial solvent!!!

It's Roseanne Rosanadana from the old SNL with her favorite tag line when she got the story wrong: "OH, NEVERMIND!"

But seriously, think about it, even though the place had been crawling with federal alphabet soup (FBI / DHS / ATFE / DOS) which agency makes the big "Nothing To See Here" announcement - the NYPD. Why?

Because it is the classic federal minimization of an event to make it seem a lot less important than it really is. If the Feds say nothing and let the local agency do all the talking it immediately reduces the importance of what is said. Then have the locals announce it was all just a big misunderstanding and it becomes even less important.

So here we are a week since the U.N. was the apparent victim of a failed chemical weapon attack and not one single news outlet even mentions it anymore. No one is asking the hard questions. No one is saying - "Hey, if it was a mistake, how'd you mistake commercial solvent for a chemical weapon?" I am really going to be worried if the best anti-terrorism units in New York City of all places are NOT able tell the difference between rat poison and a poisonous rat?

Of course this is just my theory - I could be wrong.