F.B.I. Said to Find It Could Not Have Averted Boston Attack
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Source: New York Times
The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack.
That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled a request from a Russian intelligence agency in 2011 to investigate whether one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been radicalized during his time in the United States.
Mr. Tsarnaev, who along with his brother, Dzhokhar, came to the United States about a decade ago from the Russian republic of Dagestan, was killed during a shootout with the police four days after he and his brother detonated two bombs at the finish line of the marathon, killing 3 people and injuring more than 200, the authorities say.
Members of Congress have contended that the F.B.I. should have done a more extensive investigation of Mr. Tsarnaev in response to the Russian request. And they have said the bureau should have followed up with Mr. Tsarnaev after he returned from a trip to Russia in 2012.
Read more: http://nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/fbi-said-to-conclude-it-could-not-have-averted-boston-attack.html?pagewanted=all
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)if we record everyone's metadata, we'll stop terra! cold.
In-fucking-credible.
KG
(28,749 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)that they, themselves, set up. What a giant waste of resources they are!
chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)UNLESS they are involved in setting it up themselves with some hapless dupes.
This is an ugly, bullshit murderous game they are playing at our expense. Some kind of "Hunger Games" meets "Terror Games."
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)FBI . . .
panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)Oh, and anyone who is thinking of buying one ... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police-terrorism-pressure-cooker
Do you really want to live in a country where searching for information on pressure-cookers leads to half-a-dozen cops searching your house??
Totalitarianism in not really a good form of government, unless, to paraphrase Bush, you get to be the totalitarian.
This is NOT what I want from my government, but it is what Obama - the supposed liberal, former constitutional scholar! - wants our government to be.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
― Goethe
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)cooker story--only crazy people believe that.
eggplant
(3,891 posts)fortunately, none of us do. (well, except the delusional ones.)
KansDem
(28,498 posts)But really: why the Hell do we collect all these data when we can't do jack with it?
hughee99
(16,113 posts)just not what they say it's intended for.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)The NSA, on the other hand, is busy tapping everyone else's.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)terrorists the FBI knew the CIA had let into the US before 9/11 as part of the Agency's special programs. Look at what the Obama Administration did to CIA John Kiriakou after he revealed details of the CIA torture program. Isn't that clear enough reason why the FBI can't do anything about terrorists? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=143890
That isn't the complete truth, however. Court records from the trial of convicted co-conspiractor Zakaria Moussaoui shows the FBI was aware of NSA intercepts of Midhar and and his partner Nawaf al-Hazmi in the months leading up to 9/11, who went on to hijack Flt. 77 that slammed into the Pentagon. The pair had also met with the other principal 9/11 hijackers at various locations inside the US. Based in part on NSA wiretaps that were later withheld and suppressed, FBI agents had, in fact, located the pair inside the US in mid-2001, but the investigating agents were ordered to close their files after CIA refused to cooperate and pressured the Bureau to shut down several lines of field investigation that were focusing on the plotters.
Mueller's claims omit those key facts. The Director instead stated that Khalid al-Midhar was being monitored by intelligence agencies, but they lost track of him, Mueller said. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0613/Secret-NSA-program-could-have-derailed-9-11-attacks-FBI-director-says-video
There are many aspects of the Tsarnaev case that point to the involvement with CIA programs in the former Soviet Union of several members of that family. As with al-Hazmi and al-Midhar, the FBI appears to have treated Tamarlan as a CIA operative in allowing him to freely leave and return to the US after he was designated as a terrorist. Bear in mind a couple things about Tamarlan, first he was put into three separate databanks as a suspected terrorist at about the time of a grissly triple-murder, one of the victims being his longtime best friend, on September 11, 2011. Cell phone records reviewed after the bombings showed that he and his brother were close to the murder scene at the time. It has not been explained why Tamarlan was allowed to leave the US in January while a murder investigation was still ongoing, particularly since he had been designated as a terrorist. And, then there is the question why the FBI seemingly showed so little interest in him after he returned.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)NSNBC, May 24, 2013
EXCERPT...
Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samanthas father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets. He is also involved in creating a global jihad network, presumably acting on behalf of CIA interests.
CONTINUED...
http://nsnbc.me/2013/05/24/the-boston-bombings-and-the-cia-connection-graham-fuller-and-uncle-ruslan-tsarnaev/
Seems to me that Capitalism's Invisible Army not only wants to control the oil, they want to sell the oil and bank all they can in Switzerland.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Who the hell can believe anything these fuckers have to say? They lie and lie again to us. When caught in perjury, they claim that what they said was the least untruthful thing they could say (Clapper) or some other such nonsense.