Bridgegate: How did PANYNJ Police Lose Control of the GW Bridge?

Salon asks, “In the Bridgegate federal criminal trial . . . the most egregious breach of the public trust never made it into the charging document. How could the Port Authority police, entrusted with protecting the George Washington Bridge, a top terrorist target, be enlisted on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, to execute the lane closures that prosecutors allege were part of a criminal conspiracy?”