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Bombing suspect was in security files, but not on watch lists
CNN ^ | April 24th, 2013 02:47 PM ET | Pam Benson

Posted on 04/24/2013 1:10:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The name of one Boston Marathon bombing suspect was included on U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism databases, but he was not on any watch list that would have prevented him from flying or required additional screening when he left or entered the country, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.

After the FBI was asked by the Russians in early 2011 to investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible connection to jihadist causes, his name was added to the agency's Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). That is a list of more than 500,000 names of known or suspected foreign and domestic terrorists.

Tsarnaev's name was also included on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, otherwise known as TIDE, which is maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.

That list is similar to the TSDB database, but contains more detailed, raw intelligence. The two lists are linked. New intelligence and data on suspects is developed and added to TIDE multiple times a day.
When that happens, the TSDB database also is updated.

Both files are tools for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to share information on terrorism suspects.

About 98 percent of the names on the two lists are foreign citizens, according to officials.

From the lists, the FBI Terrorism Screening Center recommends which names should be put on watch lists used by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, the State Department and the FBI.

These include "no-fly" and other lists which would require additional screening.

Tsarnaev's name was not added to any of those lists, according to officials.

His name was on a Customs and Border Protection list known as TECS, which is used to detect unusual or suspicious travel, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at security.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bostonbombing; bostonjihad; jihad; jihadinamerica

1 posted on 04/24/2013 1:10:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All
Related thread:

Boston bomb suspect's name was on classified government watch lists

I think the journalists are mucking things up a bit.

2 posted on 04/24/2013 1:12:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

3 posted on 04/24/2013 1:13:30 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: IsraelBeach; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; onyx; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam; ...

fyi


4 posted on 04/24/2013 1:16:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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Now comes this... uh, huh.

See comment # 2.

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5 posted on 04/24/2013 1:23:36 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Travis McGee

Do you know if all the paperwork on al-Harbi was generated in the heat of the moment 4/15, or did he have a national security file before then?

If all of Beck’s paper trail happened after the bombs went off, the most likely explanation IMO is excess of zeal + federal employee incompetence.

If he was “somebody” before 2:50pm 4/15, then the whole thing may be more significant.


6 posted on 04/24/2013 1:24:24 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
cnn propaganda... too late... FBI sources confirmed the watch list. satan lies and so do his acolytes.

LLS

7 posted on 04/24/2013 1:25:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is competency too much to expect when you only invest a measly
$5 Trillion Dollars in Janetalia's Homeland Scurity Department?


8 posted on 04/24/2013 1:26:16 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Iron Munro
That your pickup?

LOL!

Good message.

9 posted on 04/24/2013 1:31:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Jim Noble

Beck today is saying that he was already twice on the bad-guy terrorist list before the marathon bombing. It was a big “oops” moment at the hospital, emergency trips by the Saudi ambassador to the WH, etc. Was he their “handler?” Or paymaster? Perhaps.

Or just the unluckiest two-times on the bad boy terrorist list, and he just happened to be at the exact site of the bombing.

Talk about bad luck! Poor guy is just a foot racing fan, minding his business, and BOOM!

REALLY bad luck!


10 posted on 04/24/2013 1:58:18 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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If he was “somebody” before 2:50pm 4/15, then the whole thing may be more significant.

He claimed he did in the Beck video from yesterday. Apparently the new document that classified him as a bad terrorist, referenced an older document from a few years ago that no one can find right now.

Someone check Sandy Burglars pants.

11 posted on 04/24/2013 2:00:40 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

TSA: Stopping 0.00 Terrorists since 2002.


12 posted on 04/24/2013 2:04:21 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All observant Muslims want to kill you. If they don't, they are not really Muslims.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

what list was the gay pos muslam that visited the black house and mooooooshelll visited in the hospital on??????


13 posted on 04/24/2013 2:17:53 PM PDT by ldish (Give me Freedom and Liberty or let's kick some a**!)
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To: Iron Munro
LOL That's how I feel. The other side of the coin is maybe they aren't watching me and couldn't find me with both hands if I was attached to their butt.

Which I'm not ... and don't want to be.

14 posted on 04/24/2013 2:19:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Well,...she said the mexican border was secure.....also.


15 posted on 04/24/2013 2:23:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“The system worked”- Big Sis


16 posted on 04/24/2013 3:58:57 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: ldish

Great question!

LLS


17 posted on 04/24/2013 4:08:17 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All

According to NPR, RUSSIA WARNED THE US ABOUT THIS INDIVIDUAL.

FBI interviewed, saw nothing wrong.


18 posted on 04/24/2013 5:58:21 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: autumnraine
Yes,....and then decided if the FBI didn't see the threat they would tell the CIA.
19 posted on 04/24/2013 6:41:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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