>>>Quite possibly, in Russia. But this was a request made to our FBI, whom they can’t in any way ‘make comply’ - and have no reason to forward such a request to, unless there is a genuine security concern (to themselves, possibly, as much as to us) behind it.<<<
FBI is constantly in contact with numerous Russian law-enforcement agencies. They send hundreds of requests to each other.
BTW, under Russian legislation uploading jihadi videos to your social network account might be a federal crime. He also could use social networking for hate preaching or some kind of terror conspiracy which could be tracked as soon as servers are under Russian jurisdiction. They could identify user’s IP as located it United States and that alone was worthy to request FBI to interrogate a perp.
Absolutely agree. My only point was something was identified to trigger this request two years ago. Which obviously (and tragically) wasn’t followed up on or considered serious enough to warrant further investigation.