The Boston Police say that they have no way of knowing if they’d have done anything different than the FBI had it passed along information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month’s marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston’s police commissioner told Congress on Thursday.
Yet Commissioner Ed Davis acknowledged that police might not have uncovered or disrupted the plot even if they had fully investigated the family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev based on those warnings. The FBI after a cursory investigation closed its assessment on Tsarnaev, who died in a police shootout after the bombings. Boston police learned about the Russian security service warnings only later.
“That’s very hard to say. We would certainly look at the information, we would certainly talk to the individual,” Davis said. “From the information I’ve received, the FBI did that, and they closed the case out. I can’t say that I would have come to a different conclusion based upon the information that was known at that particular time.”
(via theday.com Mobile Edition)
But Joe Lieberman, he who has not been right about anything for thirty years or more, knows better:
“Why didn’t they involve the local law enforcers who could have stayed on the case and picked up signals from some of the students who interacted with them, from the people in the mosque?” asked former Sen. Joe Lieberman, who also testified. “In this case, aggravatingly, you have two of our great homeland security agencies that didn’t involve before the event the local and state authorities that could have helped us prevent the attack.”
Sure Joe, all those things could have happened, since the Boston cops would have figured they had nothing better to do than to snoop around a guy who up until then had been perfectly harmless because they would have had some sort of sixth sense that he was going to set off a bomb at the marathon. Hell, where was Joe at the time? He was the head of the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. Senate. Wasn’t he keeping tabs on these things? Why didn’t he introduce legislation to make us a full on police state so this type of thing could never happen. In his case, he would probably have wanted to restrict the full time surveillance to Muslims and real Democrats, but whatever.
Joe, please take a bit of advice from the little girl over an Non Sequitur: Shut up and mind your own stupid business. Let the rest of us rest easy in the knowledge that we are finally rid of you and that your business is no longer our business.
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