Melonie
04-24-2013, 11:41 AM
and today a few reports are starting to trickle out along the following lines ... from
(snip)"Reuters) - The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation said on Tuesday."(snip)
(snip)"The TIDE database is one of many federal security databases set up after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The database system has been criticized in the past for being too cumbersome, especially in light of an attempted attack on a plane in 2009. Intelligence and security agencies acknowledged in Congress that they had missed clues to the Detroit "underpants bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Officials said after the incident that he had been listed in the TIDE database.
Republican Senator Susan Collins said there were problems in sharing information ahead of the Boston bombings, too.
"This is troubling to me that this many years after the attacks on our country in 2001 that we still seem to have stovepipes that prevent information from being shared effectively," she said. Collins was speaking after the FBI gave a closed-door briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, but she did not elaborate."(snip)
(snip)"Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said law enforcement should have kept a closer eye on Tsarnaev after the FBI spoke to him two years ago. The FBI should also have realized last week following the bombings that he was in databases, Graham told reporters.
"After the bomb went off, don't you think one of the first things the FBI would do is say, 'Have we interviewed anybody in the Boston area that may fit the profile of doing this?' How could his name not pop up, the older brother? And when you have the photo the whole world is looking at, how could we not match that photo with him already being in the system?" Graham said."(snip)
Thus, like the Benghazi attack, the same questions remain unanswered. Were gov't anti-terrorist agencies simply incompetent to the point of incredulity ? Or is there some sort of closed door policy in place that is effectively preventing gov't anti-terrorist agencies from taking pre-emptive action against Muslim 'suspects' ?
In point of fact, the arguable ONLY reason that the younger brother was found and arrested was because a civilian ducked out into his back yard to smoke a cigarette ( in defiance of the gov'ts 'shelter in place' order ), happened to notice blood stains and cuts on his boat cover while he was out there, took the personal initiative to get a ladder and investigate under the boat cover, and in turned handed over the badly injured younger brother to LE on a 'silver platter'.
On a different point, it would appear that the younger brother will indeed be headed for a highly publicized domestic court trial, followed by a lifetime of free meals, free medical care, and free cable TV !
(snip)"Reuters) - The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation said on Tuesday."(snip)
(snip)"The TIDE database is one of many federal security databases set up after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The database system has been criticized in the past for being too cumbersome, especially in light of an attempted attack on a plane in 2009. Intelligence and security agencies acknowledged in Congress that they had missed clues to the Detroit "underpants bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Officials said after the incident that he had been listed in the TIDE database.
Republican Senator Susan Collins said there were problems in sharing information ahead of the Boston bombings, too.
"This is troubling to me that this many years after the attacks on our country in 2001 that we still seem to have stovepipes that prevent information from being shared effectively," she said. Collins was speaking after the FBI gave a closed-door briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, but she did not elaborate."(snip)
(snip)"Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said law enforcement should have kept a closer eye on Tsarnaev after the FBI spoke to him two years ago. The FBI should also have realized last week following the bombings that he was in databases, Graham told reporters.
"After the bomb went off, don't you think one of the first things the FBI would do is say, 'Have we interviewed anybody in the Boston area that may fit the profile of doing this?' How could his name not pop up, the older brother? And when you have the photo the whole world is looking at, how could we not match that photo with him already being in the system?" Graham said."(snip)
Thus, like the Benghazi attack, the same questions remain unanswered. Were gov't anti-terrorist agencies simply incompetent to the point of incredulity ? Or is there some sort of closed door policy in place that is effectively preventing gov't anti-terrorist agencies from taking pre-emptive action against Muslim 'suspects' ?
In point of fact, the arguable ONLY reason that the younger brother was found and arrested was because a civilian ducked out into his back yard to smoke a cigarette ( in defiance of the gov'ts 'shelter in place' order ), happened to notice blood stains and cuts on his boat cover while he was out there, took the personal initiative to get a ladder and investigate under the boat cover, and in turned handed over the badly injured younger brother to LE on a 'silver platter'.
On a different point, it would appear that the younger brother will indeed be headed for a highly publicized domestic court trial, followed by a lifetime of free meals, free medical care, and free cable TV !