N.Y.ers a-maized by corn protection

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"WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security bureaucrat who shortchanged New Yorkers' safety by $80 million implied yesterday that guarding a Nebraska cornfield from an Al Qaeda attack is the same as putting a cop with a gun on the Brooklyn Bridge.

'When you are protecting agriculture in the Midwest, you are protecting the citizens of New York City,' Assistant Secretary Tracy Henke told C-Span's 'Washington Journal.'"