HOMELAND SECURITY FAILED IN BOSTON
By Chriss Street
The FBI and Justice Department put-on a clever media dog and pony show last night to trumpet how the combined forces law enforcement successfully captured the Boston Marathon Bombers, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Within 24 hours of the bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had escaped in plain sight by returning to their normal activities, even though the older brother Tamerlan had been a focus of FBI surveillance in 2011. The real crime-scene-investigative heroes were millions of members of the internet social media website Reddit, who virally leveraged their diverse skills as citizen-social-investigators.
These self-deputized “CSI” agents sifted through police scanner chatter, cell phone pictures and community rumors to scrutinize the terrorists’ movements in front of the Lord & Taylor store to “out” the names of the Boston Bombers.
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America needs to have an open debate to determine if the politically correct
June 11, 2012 Dreamer Executive Order, terminating the deportation of young undocumented
immigrants, contributed to a policy relaxation by the Homeland Security
Department that had the effect of offering more respect for terrorist
Constitutional rights than for the safety of American citizens.
Tamerlan
Tsarnaev was obviously named in honor of “
Tamerlane”,
the brilliant military strategist who by ruthlessly conquered every nation
between India and modern day Turkey to establish his 15th Century Islamic
Caliphate. The Tsarnaev family immigrated to the U.S. in 2002 and older
brother Tamerlan following two years later. They were granted permanent
political asylum in 2007, while collecting welfare and living in public housing
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2009 and 2010, Tsarnaev was the New
England Golden Gloves heavyweight Champion and would have made the U.S. Olympic
Training Team in 2009, if he had not lost a controversial quarter-finals
decision after knocking down his opponent for a full “eight count”.
After a
2011 tip from Russian State Security, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was subject to a
“prevention” interview by the FBI. He was told: “We know what sites you
are on, we know where you are calling, we know everything about you,
everything!” Tamerlan’s father, mother and aunt were also
“interviewed”. Tamerlan’s public-facing YouTube playlist currently
features Chechen revolutionary videos by singer Timur Mutsuraev, “The Emergence
of Prophecy: The Black Flags from Khorasan” and other radical jihadi favorites.
He was also arrested in 2009 for domestic assault of his girlfriend.
On
January 12, 2012, Tamerlan flew to Moscow and appears traveled to the Caucus
region of Dagestan or Chechnya. He returned in July 2012. During
this period it is assumed that he developed the sophistication manufacture the
bombs and grenades he used in Boston by attending a jihadi training camp.
On June 12, 2012, shortly before Tamerlan returned, his mother was
arrested and charged with two counts of
malicious/wanton damage and property defacement, after stealing $1,624 worth of
clothes from a Lord & Taylor. She conveniently left for Dagestan to
avoid prosecution and shortly thereafter Tamerlan’s father also left the U.S.
for his homeland.
On
September 1, 2012, with the Middle East rioting against the U.S. and our
citizens being murdered in Benghazi, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sworn-in as an
American Naturalized Citizen. He had just graduated from
Cambridge Rindge
and Latin High School, the alma mater of liberal icons Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon. Dzhokhar entered the University of Massachusetts at
Dartmouth on a
scholarship he won from the City of Cambridge, which
describes itself as a community “whose strength and beauty” is in its
diversity. Undoubtedly, Dzhokhar’s sob story about being a Chechen
victimized by Russian tyranny scored extra scholarship points for helping the
politically oppressed.
It
should have been easy for FBI investigators to connect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a
person of interest. He was Chechen, on Russian terrorist watch-list,
recently traveled to Chechnya, had an arrest for assault, and his mother had
been prosecuted by Lord & Taylor. But the
law enforcement
trail went cold after the first 24 hours for the bombers who placed black
backpacks in front of the Boston Lord & Taylor store on Patriot’s Day.
Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev was so confident of his escape that he slept in his single-unit dorm
room at UMass-Dartmouth the day after killing three and wounded 180 Boston
Marathon spectators. He acted completely relaxed the next day as he
worked out at the gym, played video games, participated in intermural soccer,
and went to a hip-hop party on campus that evening. Meanwhile, law
enforcement officials frantically called out to the public for any clues on how
the terrorists had vanished.
Perhaps
one of the challenges law enforcement faced was the Presidential Executive
Order on June 11, 2012 that stopped arrests and deportations of young
“undocumented” immigrants under 30. President Barack Obama said at his
press conference announcing the policy change: “They pledge allegiance to our
flag. They are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way
but one: on paper.”
Unknown
to the Tsarnaevs, who were probably basking in the glory of their perfect crime
and dreaming up the next slaughter for their Chechen offensive, the Reddit
citizen-social-investigators had identified Dzhokhar and Tamerlan by analyzing
the bombers hats to pin-point the Tsarnaev brothers as the “unsubs” as the
“unsubs.” Reddit had also identified their new Camaro get-away-car and
was closing in on their current location.
The
Tsarnaevs, who were also monitoring Reddit, suddenly realized they had been
identified as perpetrators and were forced to break their disciplined covers by
robbing a 7-11 store for quick cash, assassinating a campus policeman, and then
botching their escape when they car-jacked a Mercedes with a Lo-Jack security
system. It still took law enforcement another 48 hours of dodging
homemade grenades and engaging in multiple gun fights with automatic weapons to
stop the Chechen terrorists.
As
America’s first successful major domestic terror attack in the eleven years
since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC,
the Boston Bombing is evidence that some dramatic change in policy must have
allowed a person identified as a potential terrorist to successfully complete
his mission and almost escape in plain sight. The ramifications of the
politically driven changes to Homeland Security’s domestic surveillance and
enforcement appear to have substantially contributed to the failure to protect
American citizens from the people who live amongst us and still hate us.
Congress should conduct open hearing to thoroughly investigate this
intelligence failure and to author bipartisan legislation that better protects
our nation from terrorists.
CHRISS
STREET & PAUL PRESTON
Present
“The Agenda 21 Radio Talk Show”
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