MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Report details missed chances ahead of Marathon attacks
By artappraiser on Thu, 04/10/2014 - 11:16pm |FBI’s review of Tsarnaev faulted; communication gaps unearthed
By Matt Viser and Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe, April 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — An Obama administration review of the Boston Marathon bombings released Thursday revealed communication gaps within Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — a group that relied on office conversations and sticky notes to relay intelligence — and portrayed the FBI’s initial review of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 as somewhat cursory.
It paints yet another damaging portrait of law enforcement agencies’ missed opportunities to scrutinize Tsarnaev as he became radicalized in the two years before he and his younger brother allegedly planted two bombs at the Boston Marathon.
The 32-page report, the result of a yearlong investigation to determine whether official lapses allowed home-grown terrorists to escape detection, documents in the greatest detail yet how the FBI and other intelligence agencies handled warnings from Russian intelligence officials that Tsarnaev — along with his mother — was becoming a radical Islamist who needed to be monitored [....]
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It appears the 9/11 Commission Report fell on some deaf ears:
What especially comes to mind is the story of Colleen Rowley and Zacarias Moussaoui.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 12:09am
The whole point of post it notes is that they come off! I don't even find them reliable for communicating with myself.!
by jollyroger on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 1:31am
On the bright side, now that small, barely noticeable bluetooth headsets are in vogue, we can return to the classic method of communicating with ourselves orally without people becoming unduly alarmed. (I hate having a written record of what I say to myself. You never know when I might go rogue on myself and decide to use it against me!)
by Verified Atheist on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 8:06am
I know just what you mean--forty years ago I fomented an intra office coup in my IT department, so the guys in neurotransmitter and hormone synthesis have a completely phony AV feed...I keep them on a need-to-know basis, and as far as they are concerned, they are manufacturing chemicals for the bloodstream of a 19 year old.....so far so good.
by jollyroger on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 10:48am
Does this mean it wasn't Occupy Wall Street's fault for distracting the FBI?
by Anonymous PP (not verified) on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 2:00am
No doubt there are people who will cite this as evidence that the U.S. government was behind the Boston Marathon Bombing.
by Aaron Carine on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 7:16am
The crackpot right blamed the bombing on Obama before the smoke cleared.
by NCD on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 2:48pm
These people don't seem to be saying that Obama ordered the bombing, whereas the 9/11 Truthers say Bush ordered the 9/11 attacks.
by Aaron Carine on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 9:26pm
Ergo Aaron Carine believes that Bush/Cheney were totally truthful about events around 9/11, and every other catastrophe in their administration? Same as Obama...?
We do know Bush did not want to investigate what failures allowed the 9/11 attacks to be carried out. Who was to blame for no warnings, no hindrance, and no interception or interruption of the terrorist plans by the authorities.
We do know that Bush and White House staff started on anti-anthrax Cipro on 9/11, a week before the first anthrax letter was mailed.
We do know that establishment reporters like Richard Cohen of Washington Post said the anthrax "attacks were not entirely unexpected. I had been told soon after Sept. 11 to secure Cipro". Not unexpected? And right after 9/11?
And we do know the threat of anthrax was used by Bush to gin up fever for the invasion of Iraq. We also know the spores were of US origin, and the crime was pinned 10 years later on a dead man, who never stood trial.
I guess for guys like Aaron Carine facts like these add up to..........nada
by NCD on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 10:17pm
That's not what he said - why do you jump on him like that?
He's simply stating that the claims against Obama ("responsible for a security lapse") are an order or two lower than the claims against Bush ("ordered a traitorous attack on us")
Whether either of the claims is true is grist for a 1000 or more blog sites.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/12/2014 - 3:31am
I have a problem with anyone who on any level creates equivalencies between 9/11 and the Boston bombing. Anyone who does so deserves to be 'jumped on', and asked some questions.
We are talking about the worst terror attack in US history. A failing of the US national security apparatus that President Bush did not want to investigate. There is no analogy between that, and the war that followed resulting in a million deaths, and a couple of amateur terrorists and a pressure cooker bomb.
by NCD on Sat, 04/12/2014 - 10:55am
Sorry, there can be analogies between many things - there can be lessons even if not exact equivalence.
Didn't get the memo where you decide which ones are acceptable.
(Even the famous "Godwin's Law" is overrated & overreferenced)
So go ahead, jump on Aaron, & I presume you won't mind if I jump on you.
PS - your "million deaths" is also significantly off. And yes, the security failure on 9/11 was many magnitudes greater than Boston or Benghazi.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 04/12/2014 - 12:17pm
History rewind: The FBI couldn't even identify the suspects AFTER the bombing.
They had photos and videos of the two guys at the scene, and had interviewed at least the older brother a year or two earlier. A quicker ID and arrest would have saved the life of that 25 year old cop the brothers killed.
'FBI: Help Us ID Suspects' - (3 days after bombing) - CNN.
by NCD on Fri, 04/11/2014 - 2:56pm