Jake Tapper tweets on the FBI investigation into Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

[dkf]

@jaketapper: WH referred me to FBI re: Russian FSB asking US to investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, which they did and then moved on; FBI radio silent

@jaketapper: Intel source tells me it's "rare" for Russians to reach out like that, to ask FBI to look into someone as they did with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

@jaketapper: Big q is why FBI didnt keep an eye on/talk to Tamerlan Tsarnaev after he returned from Chechnya last year. So far from FBI: crickets.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. The Hindsight Festival Commences

Jake Tapper will now try to rescue CNN's sinking ship by manufacturing some nefarious purpose here, by implication.

[Buzz Clik]

2. On Twitter no less.

[Walk away]

3. He can just tune in to Foxsnews. They have it covered! nt

[winstars]

4. Tapper almost sucked as much as Mr. King did this past week... Twittering Fool...

[gateley]

5. Yeah, he was pretty bad.

[kickysnana]

6. Moussaoui redux?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui

[JackN415]

10. Yup. FBI dropped the ball. And couldn't even follow the usual suspects after the bombing

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. Ugghhh . . . Jake, how about you report on all the other inter-sovereign terrorism investigations

that occurred during the last few years?

Oh yeah, there were too many to keep track of . . . politicization of this specific issue is completely lame and low-brow, even for CNN. And that's setting the bar really low.

But that won't keep CNN from filing a report, unfortunately.

CNN = Corporate News Now

[sabrina 1]

8. He's not the only one who has reported this.

All the money spent on 'security' and each time we have a terror attack, we find out, as in the case of the underwear bomber eg, the Iraq 'contact' in the 93 TwinTowers bombing, Moussaoui et al, that the FBI has been surveilling, or was warned about these people.

It's becoming par for the course that people like this who seem to do something out of the blue, aren't so 'out of the blue' at all.

Trillions spent on security. OWS protestors are under surveillance, arrested, beaten and followed, spied one etc, but radicals who have been reported to the FBI, sometimes by their families, are just left alone.

Seems to me it's time to take a close look at our security apparatus. It doesn't seem to be working.

[scarletwoman]

9. The FBI has been too busy setting up "sting" operations to bother with actual investigations.

Ever since 9/11 we've been treated to one story after another about how the FBI has thwarted various terrorist plots, which have all turned out to be eleborate entrapments of total losers who were lured into "plotting" a terrorist attack by FBI informers who supplied them with fake bombs and shit. And then the FBI crows about another successful arrest in the Great War on Terror. It's such bullshit!

They fucking talk some idiot bozos into dreaming big, set them up, and then call it great police work. It appears they wouldn't know how to investigate a *real* threat if it bit them in the ass!

[JackN415]

11. +1

[Zorra]

12. And they were busy coordinating the crackdown on Occupy when they weren't setting up losers. nt

[Politicalboi]

15. It's called

Job security.

[Carolina]

17. not to mention

it was FBI field agents who tried to notify their superiors at FBI headquarters in DC about their concerns regarding foreign nationals who were enrolled in flight schools, keenly interested in learning how to fly but not in how to land!

[JaneyVee]

13. Actually, it would be creepier if they found nothing on him and continued to surveillance him.

[sabrina 1]

16. Creepy isn't a problem then, is it? They found nothing on the peaceful OWS protesters either but

they had not problem continuing to spy on them, to raid their apartments, put them on watch lists, etc etc.


If they just been as diligent with him as they are with OWS, they might have at least asked the foreign government to keep an eye on what he was doing when he left the country to go to Russia, eg.

But don't worry about 'creepy surveillance'. They don't, when it comes to anyone who joins a protest against the corruption on Wall St.

[FarCenter]

14. Did some clever folk at the FBI or CIA think Tamerlan was working for them?

Double agent? That would fit with what the mother is claiming?