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Will Boston Probe Falter Like Benghazi?
Townhall.com ^ | April 28, 2013 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 04/28/2013 7:12:48 AM PDT by Kaslin

Hours after the Boston Marathon bombings but before authorities identified suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, President Barack Obama purposefully addressed the nation. "We will find out who did this. We'll find out why they did this," the president pledged. "Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice."

Days later, there's reason to wonder how zealously the administration will work to uncover everything that needs to be known.

The day after the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi, Libya, attacks, which left four Americans -- Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty -- dead, Obama made a similar statement. "Make no mistake," the president said. "We will work with the Libyan government to bring justice to the killers who attacked our people."

More than seven months later, there have been no indictments and no arrests. According to a House Republican Conference report on the Benghazi attacks released Tuesday, the FBI investigation into the attacks has yielded "very little progress." The GOP leaders questioned why the administration chose to put the FBI in charge of the investigation when the FBI team did not have access to the Benghazi crime scene for three weeks. You might think that the administration didn't want quick answers.

Washington ordered criminal investigations after the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the 2000 attack on the Navy destroyer Cole. The GOP leaders observed at the time that those probes did not deliver the full weight of justice.

The Obama administration is one that clings to the fiction that the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, shootings, which left 13 dead, were not a terrorist attack but "workplace violence."

After Benghazi, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame the violence on an anti-Islam video, which allegedly spurred a protest that then was "hijacked" by armed extremists, when the administration clearly knew better.

I'm not blaming the Obama administration for the attack in Boston or the one in Benghazi. Terrorists are responsible for the carnage. I blame the administration for not acting decisively after Benghazi, as I hope for a better response after Boston.

I do understand why the president hesitated before calling the Boston bombings an "act of terrorism." I believe that authorities are right not to charge surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, as an enemy combatant; he is a U.S. citizen.

I do blame the administration, however, for not making sure that authorities had the opportunity to learn as much as possible about the Tsarnaevs' plans. The Associated Press reported that federal investigators were surprised when a federal judge and prosecutor entered Dzhokhar's hospital room Monday and read him his Miranda rights. (A public safety exception allowed authorities to delay administering Miranda rights for 48 hours in order to gain intelligence.) Tsarnaev immediately stopped cooperating.

No surprise there. In 2009, would-be underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, told the FBI he was from al-Qaida in Yemen, until agents read him his Miranda rights. Then he, too, clammed up.

We know that there was bureaucratic bungling. Having been warned by the Russians, the CIA and the FBI placed the elder brother, Tamerlan, 26, on separate terrorist watch lists -- and nothing happened. The Department of Homeland Security later learned Tamerlan went to Russia, but it didn't do anything about it.

In the wake of the Boston attacks that left Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi and Sean Collier dead, news organizations are committed to uncovering everything that went wrong. That is as it should be. After the Benghazi attack, however, many in the media dismissed GOP criticism of the administration's cover-up as partisan. It was partisan, but that doesn't mean the criticism was wrong.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: benghazi; boston; dzhokhartsarnaev; marathonbombing; tamerlantsarnaev; terrorism; tsarnaev
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1 posted on 04/28/2013 7:12:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin; OwenKellogg; bunster; thouworm; maggief; onyx; nutmeg; AllAmericanGirl44; ...

Boston Bombing Ping!


2 posted on 04/28/2013 7:16:02 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: Kaslin

Yep!


3 posted on 04/28/2013 7:33:50 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: Kaslin

We, the citizens of The United States, elect a President to watch over the employees in the Executive Branch. If we elect a boob, then we have a boob watching over our federal employees. Obama isn’t smart enough to run a sno cone stand.


4 posted on 04/28/2013 7:34:59 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kaslin

ABSOLUTELY. Control, control, control. Control the message. It’s one of the pillars of TOTALITARIANISM.

TREASON - continuous, in-your-face-mocking-you, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, ongoing...


5 posted on 04/28/2013 7:37:04 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin
Where are the survivors of Benghazi? The survivors of the Conn. massacre were used as props for gun control. Are there any Benghazi survivors? Are they in prison? Shouldn't they be given immunity to testify? Don't they have families?

The President promised we'd get to the bottom of this.

6 posted on 04/28/2013 7:37:18 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: Kaslin

Of course it will “falter.” Even in the short time since the bombings, Obama and Holder have done everything possible to make the whole thing disappear.

The special judge coming to Mirandize the bomber (who would otherwise have been available for questioning for 48 hours, instead of the 16 they got before the judge showed up), the mysterious disappearance of the White House-visiting, terrorist-connected Saudi “student” who was hospitalized with not easily explicable bomb-related injuries, and the aw-shucks dismissal of the fact that the FBI wasn’t a little more curious after TWO warnings about the brothers and their mother - these are just the beginning.

I think that within another week, the terrorists will have been completely whitewashed and the attacks will be considered to be all our fault, something we deserved, and hence just another injury to be absorbed by the ever-patient American people, with not even grumbling about it being allowed.


7 posted on 04/28/2013 7:41:46 AM PDT by livius
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Watertown is Hussein's Benghazi.


8 posted on 04/28/2013 7:42:06 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Kaslin; KeyLargo; All

From another thread posted by FReeper, Key Largo...

Left Dominates Debate Over Terrorism By Co-Opting Our Rhetoric

By MARK STEYN
Posted 04/26/2013 06:35 PM ET

One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly.

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/042613-653758-left-uses-rhetoric-to-dominate-debate-over-terrorism-other-policies.htm

(thanks Key Largo)

Control the message. It’s one of the pillars of TOTALITARIANISM.


9 posted on 04/28/2013 7:44:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Where are the survivors of Benghazi? The survivors of the Conn. massacre were used as props for gun control. Are there any Benghazi survivors? Are they in prison? Shouldn't they be given immunity to testify? Don't they have families?

BUMP!

10 posted on 04/28/2013 7:45:57 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin
In the wake of the Boston attacks that left Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi and Sean Collier dead, news organizations are committed to uncovering everything that went wrong.
False.
11 posted on 04/28/2013 7:47:41 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Kaslin
Also, in case you didn't know, there was an "interfaith prayer service" in Boston on the Thursday (odd choice of day) after the bombing, and Obama came, disrupting everything including undoubtedly the investigation. Tuesday or Wednesday (sorry, I forget) the FBI kept announcing an upcoming press conference -- first for early afternoon, then for 5:00 p.m., then 5:30, then it was cancelled. They finally had the press conference on Thursday (just about as soon as Obama's plane had left). They put out the pictures of the terrorists an then things started to hop!

A suspicious person might question the wisdown of this proceeding; don't the police always say the longer the delay, the less likely the perps will be caught? Surely Obama wasn't trying to give them a chance to get away -- and get to NY to bomb Times Square as they planned?

And they might have been successful in the Times Square bombing, if the guy they hijacked hadn't managed to escape and call the police.

12 posted on 04/28/2013 7:48:25 AM PDT by maryz
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To: Kaslin

All roads lead to obama and, yes, this probe will be directed to fail.


13 posted on 04/28/2013 8:13:29 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Bratch

Huh? Which part is false?


14 posted on 04/28/2013 10:07:46 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Kaslin

As long as nothing can be anyone’s fault and nobody can be held accountable, under the synthetically-held doctrine of “we will hold them accountable” there is no possibility of anything but cross finger-pointed gobbledygook coming out of this. When the leadership is lying about fundamentals, there is no possibility of finding out valid truth and then acting on it.

We need a new word, and if anyone has a pre-existing word to offer, I welcome it, but I think a brand new word might be better. By and large, it’s Goebbel’s “the big lie”. But, it needs to be a new word, unmoored from the Nazi implications.

The word has to define an official doctrine, spoken and lauded and extolled in ceremony and gesture, but deliberately countered at every opportunity in act. It needs to be a catchy sort of word. It needs to encompass deliberately-taken-on hypocrisy.

“0bamaganda” comes close, but I want better.


15 posted on 04/28/2013 10:09:26 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

What about “0bamfuscation”. I like the pun with “confiscation”, too, another prevalent regime practice.


16 posted on 04/28/2013 10:29:13 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Kaslin
No,it won't “falter”.What will happen is that at some point OsamaObama or whoever he has serving as Attorney Corporal at the time will announce that an exhaustive investigation showed that they were just two misguided goofy kids who were playing too much Call of Duty and listening to too much Laura Ingraham.Of course this announcement will be made on Christmas Eve to ensure maximum publicity.
17 posted on 04/28/2013 11:28:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44
Huh? Which part is false?
"...news organizations are committed to uncovering everything that went wrong."

The only thing news organizations are committed to is covering The One's gluteus maximus.

18 posted on 04/28/2013 12:10:49 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

lol, thanks for clearing it up. Of course you are correct.


19 posted on 04/28/2013 12:38:15 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: penelopesire
Absolutely, the NWO depends upon it.

Police Say The Naked Man Arrested In Boston Was Not Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Both his nutty parents and his straight up Uncle say they are 100% certain this video is Tamerlan. Look at any of the pictures we have of Tamerlan, we can all agree that his most significant feature is his nose. Now, look at the crystall clear video images. This naked man is obviously Tamerlan beyond any reasonable doubt.

On Thursday night while police were hunting in Watertown, Mass. for bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at one point they arrested a naked man who looks a lot like Tamerlan.

Police say the naked man is not Tamerlan, despite various conspiracy theories going around the Internet.

According to the official account, Tamerlan died after a shootout with cops, riddled with bullets and shrapnel before being run over by his brother who was fleeing the scene in an SUV.

Take a look: I dare you!

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-naked-man-mystery-role-in-boston-2013-4#ixzz2RnIPaCad

FBI

The Watertown police department got back to us via email just to say that the naked man was not Tamerlan Tsarnaev (pictured on right and in high-res here).

The shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers occurred on Laurel Street. The journalist interviewed in this video describes naked man's capture near Nichols and Dexter, literally down the street from the shootout.

Naked man was apparently stripped, questioned, clothed, questioned some more, and reportedly let go. It's likely police stripped him because they were under citywide bomb threat and wanted to make sure he didn't have a suicide vest, but the police did not comment on that.

Needless to say, Business Insider is interested to hear Naked Man's personal story — send any tips to tips@businessinsider.com.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-naked-man-mystery-role-in-boston-2013-4#ixzz2RnIPaCad

Have any of you viewed the CNN footage of a Crisis Actor that was interviewed at the bombing and four days later as a witness to the Watertown shootout. If you're still with me, I would be happy to PM you.

FReepers Up!

20 posted on 04/28/2013 2:37:07 PM PDT by STD (One day closer to street justice)
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