Explosion at Boston Marathon II

YF, there is a wall in the room you are sitting in. Go over to it and bang your head against it about 20 times.
I have a feeling, by the way, if this would have happened prior to 2008, the FBI would not be getting this big of a benefit of the doubt.

 

The Onion gets a handle on things.

Majority Of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens

http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-majority-of-americans-not-informed-enough-to,32124/

Kinane’s team was able to confirm, however, that once research subjects were told Chechnya is a predominantly Muslim region, they were “usually pretty good to go from there.”

 

A better question would be, how many people are the FBI warned about by a foreign government in a given year? I imagine it's not a large number.

Edit to add: As I've said before, I don't believe there is any way to stop two lone nuts ahead of time.

My comment is directed more towards vetting suspects in the post-bombing investigation.

 

I view the FBI separately from city cops working the streets.

The FBI has earned its reputation as a giant bureaucratic clusterfuck.

 

I would be as upset as you if I suspected the FBI didn't immmediately start checking up on Saudis and Iranians near Boston who've crossed their radar before.

Conversely, if it had been the Russian consulate in Boston [is there one?] which was bombed, I would have expected them to start with Chechens.

Do you honestly not get that law enforcement starts with the most likely suspects and goes from there? After this, Chechens will get lumped in as likely to attack American targets, so Congratulations. You're one step closer to being able to treat all Muslims as clones.

You should be fucking celebrating.

 

The Russians warned us that he was a radical Islamist, not a radical Chechen nationalist.

So, when they went looking for/at potential Islamist radicals, he should have been one of them. No reason to limit it to Saudis, Iranians, or Yemenis.

 

As long as your going there, I have a feeling YF was resolutely silent about the "failure" of interdiction that had a more-than-thousandfold higher body count.

 

Here's the LA Times on the warning we received:

 

Asked and answered.

Jamie Gorelick and others did drop the ball, and there were plenty of missed opportunities before 9/11.

From granting them Visas in the first place, to not keeping track of them, to not getting suspicious about guys who wanted to learn how to fly, but not land, to the arrest of the "20th hijacker", we had opportunities to prevent 9/11.

 

Pretty sure Dooley is talking about the opportunities that Clinton turned down to get Bin Laden.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/4/20060704-110004-4280r/

 

That's funny. I seem to recall getting ripped on when I suggested that when a country decides to attack another country, that they should plan for every single contingency. I was told that it was impossible to do so.

Yet, you seem to think that every time we get warned about somebody, that we should be monitoring all of his posts and making a couple of follow-up interviews.

Ever think that the guy would do his bombing in between the interviews?

 

Had wife and kid with recall means of financial support.