The FBI investigation no doubt was handled by a very junior agent. However this agent was no doubt influenced by the prevailing climate at the Bureau. If his supervisor somehow criticized him for “profiling” or not being sensitive to “Muslim sensitivities”, his career would be severely impacted. Tone and policy come from the top. Obama and Holder’s emphasis on reaching out to Muslims no doubt effects the way these investigations are done.
What is the religion of the FBI agent(s) that handled the referral from the Russians and found no issue?
FBI has had their hands tied through the efforts of “CAIR” limiting on how they conduct investigations on Moslems and follow Internet Terrorists Videos..
From the American Thinker....
“Realistically, the FBI had its hands tied. Tamerlan had broken no law, nor even uttered anything that could be construed as seditious or threatening.
At this point, I would blame the Russians more than the FBI. Whatever information they shared with the feds, it wasn’t serious enough to have the FBI reopen the Tamerlan file.
I’m not ready to throw the FBI under the bus quite as enthusiastically as some members of congress appear to be doing. Twenty-Twenty hindsight is a wonderful thing and what looks to us like “dropping the ball” may very well turn out to have been proper procedures.
We saw much the same thing during the investigation into 9/11. While there was certainly negligence enough to go around, some critics pointed to straws in the wind as evidence that “warnings” went unheeded. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an extremely minor blip on the FBI’s terror radar. From this point of view, the FBI acted properly and within the scope of the law.
“If only” is not a valid criticism.
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Does no one but me remember that after 9/11 we had Muslims in the FBI and CIA that refused to investigate other Muslims?