President Barack Obama is praising the New York Police Department for its work in disrupting an alleged terrorist plot to bomb commuter trains.
Obama dialed into a briefing on tonight that the NYPD was giving the president’s counterterrorism adviser. Obama thanked the city’s law enforcement agency for its work in the ongoing terrorism investigation.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the president told the NYPD that he is “particularly grateful for the exceptional teamwork” over the past several weeks with other police departments and federal agencies.
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and members of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division and Counter Terrorism Bureau were meeting with White House Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan.