Posted on 04/24/2013 3:42:19 PM PDT by markomalley
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s failure to recognize political Islam as a driver of jihadist terrorism is partly to blame for the FBI not identifying one of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2011 as a security risk, according to U.S. officials and private counterterrorism analysts.
The FBI revealed last week that it was warned by a foreign government in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed Friday, was tied to “radical Islam” but the FBI was unable to confirm the links.
“The fact is religion has been expunged from counterterrorism training,” said Sebastian Gorka, a counterterrorism specialist with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The FBI can’t talk about Islam and they can’t talk about jihad.”
Added Patrick S. Poole, another counterterrorism specialist, about FBI policies on Islam: “I have zero doubt it affected their investigation of Tsarnaev.”
A U.S. official said FBI policies of playing down Islamic links to terrorism resulted in the FBI not identifying Tsarnaev, 26, or his brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, who was charged with last week’s bombing, as Islamist terrorists.
Instead, the FBI is limiting its description of the two men as ethnic Chechens who became “radicalized” prior to the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and more than 200 injured in the attack using two homemade bombs placed in pressure cookers and remotely detonated.
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In 2004, Presidential Candidate John F. Kerry said we would have to learn to accept a nuisance level of terrorism.
Well Bill Clinton DID send the FBI on a wild goosechase in the late 1990s investigating a non-existent "rash of racist arson cases against Southern black churches" all while the 9-11 hijackers were overstaying their visa and learning to fly (but not land) airplanes.
“it was the “Gorelick Wall””
Nooooo,, thats impossible. The 9/11 commission investigated that. In fact, Gorelick HERSELF was on the commission. I’m sure if she did anything wrong, she would have brought it to their attention./
Then she made 26 million from Fannie Mae where she was vice chairman with no business or financial education at all. She did nothing wrong there either./
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The FBI hasn’t been worth a shiite since J. Edgar Hoover. For whatever faults he had he was an AMERICAN who tried to protect this country.
The commielibs took over the fedgov in the 1970’s and its been downhill ever since.
The only thing the Fumbling Bumbling Idiots are good for now is holding press conferences after the fact explaining what a good job they’ve done capturing a perp some private citizen identified for them.
Obama is a Muslim Jihadist. There Is no doubt anymore.
Didn’t Kerry brag he was a marathoner? (/snix))
I'm amazed that these youtube videos have so few views.
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