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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHearing that the FBI questioned the older brother 2 years ago.
Do we have another failure of the intelligence community?
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)If they have no evidence they can't justify keeping an open file on him. It may look like a bad decision to close the file now but it probably was the only right decision at the time.
bighart
(1,565 posts)or would allow someone to be either kept on it or eliminated from it.
dkf
(37,305 posts)We should keep a file open,.
If this was Russia who has been all over the Chechnya jihadists, we may have taken things too lightly.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)telling our government to place people on watch lists. Maybe you wish they had in this case, but unfortunately in many if not most cases it would result in innocent people being watched.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)It seems unlikely they had enough evidence to justify a long term warrant for surveillance.
bighart
(1,565 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)send them a long list of people you don't care for so they are to busy to watch your spys
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)For all we know he could have only started getting really radicalized, say, a year ago; if that's the case then an interview a couple of years earlier wouldn't have helped much.
That said, if the only word about his meeting the FBI is from his mother, I'd take the claim with a whole salt mine.
bighart
(1,565 posts)"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI in 2011 interviewed one of the brothers suspected in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. law enforcement source said on Friday"