[next media]

This adminstration withholding important information? I doubt many would be surprised...

[Alberta's Child]

I'm not sure why this is a big deal. With all of the security cameras in the area and probably tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of still photos from the media and from spectators at the Boston Marathon, I suspected from Day 1 that the biggest challenge for law enforcement would be to comb through all of that evidence and identify wich of the dozens of people in the area carrying backpacks or gym bags were the culprits.

That process would take several days at least. Once this was done, they posted the photos and names of the two suspects for public consumption and for help in finding them.

[Starboard]

law enforcement officers refused to describe the ethnicity of the suspects...

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We need to hear a lot more about the Saudi guy who was tackled by the crowd at the scene. Very strange “coincidence”.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fbi_grills_saudi_man_XaT5rE40LDdAH44vMFOEXM

[I want the USA back]

Anythihg to protect the religion of peace death cult.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “And yet many wonder if those in power really presented all the information in an effort to do everything they could to catch the terrorists.”

Yes, and someone else on Freepers asked a great question earlier today - How is it that the FBI did not KNOW who either of these bombers were and asked the public for any information as to who these people were, when they admitted to questioning the older brother back in 2009 (or was it 2011)? Also, the mother of these two terrorists claims the FBI were always telling her that they knew the older one was into Muslim extremism and that he was a threat?

The FBI asked the public to help ID them from the photos released to us, how is it that they couldn’t ID at least the older brother?

[Alberta's Child]

However, despite what is a very common practice in law enforcement of describing the suspects, even more so in dramatic events such as the one which occurred in Boston , law enforcement officers refused to describe the ethnicity of the suspects.

Maybe I'm missing something here. Didn't the police and/or FBI post their photos and names on Thursday evening? Wasn't that probably what "smoked them out" and started the whole chain of events that shut down Boston all day on Friday?

[dforest]

All of this isn’t much different than this.

“Write The Constitution in bold print on a piece of paper. Now, put it on the floor and stomp on it”.

The cops and the FBI failed in this. Their only success was that they proved they can put fear in people and stomp on their rights.

However, that smoker who found the bomber in his boat, had the cohones to look in there and call the cops. He should have gotten all the praise at Fenway Park from the sheeple crowd. LE sitting there should have been ashamed and embarrassed. Hells bells, Suspect #2, according to police, took care of getting rid of Suspect #1.

Perhaps we can thank smokers for doing even more than paying for children’s healthcare.

Their habit is also a plus in catching terrorists! Next time we could call “shelter in place” for everyone but smokers. We could save a lot of money and wouldn’t need the brownshirts.

[CottShop]

he elder brother went to russia- came back later and IMMEDIAQTELY put violent jihadi articles and rhettoric on his website and he did this AFTER Russia Begged the US to keep an eye on him, and soemhow the FBI ‘missed the signs’?

BS! They were told to stand down cocnerning that radical islamist-

[blueunicorn6]

My Grandma taught me, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Obama evidently didn’t receive that message.

[fso301]

What would be very interesting is to know the ratio of tips originating from within the area the terrorists were known to frequent versus elsewhere?

[snowstorm12]

THey didn’t even describe the clothing, which could’ve helped people go over their photographs to find a more clear photo of the suspect. A guy in a white hat turned backwards would narrow things down .