How could they not? They had a billion dollars worth of resources in the immediate area and shut down an entire city over two junior terrorist...
And a citizen had to tip them off so they could make the 2nd arrest on junior terrorist #2.
Why you playing stupid?
All this spying on, monitoring, threatening, bugging and intimidating American citizens yet these low level unsophisticated Boston Bomber Muslims are not caught by governments tax paid trillion dollar anti-terrorist apparatus, prior to the event??
Hows that work Mr. Kangel?
Did ya recall it was *government* who were providing these junior Muslim terrorist with hundreds of thousands in tax paid food stamps, gifts, prizes, school coupons and other tax paid goodies?
What's up with that Kangel?
.... Well,, to be honest, I was attempting, apparently rather poorly, to show the absurdity of spending a gagillion dollars on spying on our own citizens while redirecting the focus of our fight against terrorists AWAY from foreign threats and refocusing the efforts on .... Conservative groups within our own borders.
...As you may recall, only a few months ago the Prez with a fez and his administration named Christian extremists along with Conservative groups as the biggest threat to the nation .... even above Muslim extremist groups such as ..... Al-Qaeda! Where the heck did they come up with that WHOPPER!!!
In the mean time the Boston Bombers went practically undetected. Heck .... even though we received multiple leads from foreign intelligence entities they were practically ignored ... go figure! It has become quite clear that the Tsarnaev Brother incident could have been easily prevented ....That is, if this administration would have spent more time focusing on ACTUAL foreign OPFOR entities rather than on the likes of friendly patriotic Christians and Conservatives .... mining for intel to be strategically used for muck raking and asset destruction of those patriots and patriotic groups.
.... In short ... the intelligence assets, as well as all of our alphabet Departments, being used to stir up trouble for Christians and Conservatives would have been much better used and money incredibly better spent if they were actually focused on GENUINE enemies of America ..... instead of mere political enemies of this Administration which they have no business doing in the first place.