Folks, follow up on the timescale: Tamerlan is said to have returned from Russia in June/July 2012.
Yet, if the CIA added or tried to add him to the terrorism watch list months before then, should he ever have been allowed back into the USA??
Remember that he was on a “green card” so he could/should have been kept out?? Can’t a green card be revoked if someone qualifies for the terrorist watch list??
At the very least he should have drawn close attention from the FBI, and apparently did not.
For one thing, if he was on anyone’s radar, properly, how could it have taken several days until the public circulation of the brothers’ photos??? How could the brothers have remained free so long after the bombings when they were “hiding in plain sight”???
This is a massive, epic counter-intel FAIL on many counts.
He was taken off the list while in Russia.
“Yet, if the CIA added or tried to add him to the terrorism watch list months before then, should he ever have been allowed back into the USA??”
Exactly. As said above there is an epic fail here by the administration.