Posted on 05/16/2013 10:23:08 AM PDT by jazusamo
Surprise, surprise the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rejected the media’s requests for the immigration records of the Boston Marathon bombers, likely because they contain information that could further embarrass the government.
After all, the feds ignored critical warnings from Russia about the older Chechen terrorist (Tamerlan Tsarnaev) and the FBI even kept the information from Boston Police, which could have kept a closer eye on him. Additionally, Judicial Watch reported days after the bombings that Tamerlan, 26, and not a U.S. citizen could have been deported years ago after a criminal arrest.
Adding insult to injury, the other bomber, little brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was rewarded with American Citizenship on September 11, 2012 in Boston, according to a JW source. The 19-year-old was granted asylum in Arlington Virginia on September 27, 2002, JW’s source reveals. This week a mainstream media outlet reports that Dzhokhar left a note claiming responsibility for the bombings as retaliation for America’s actions against Muslims.
Americans have the right to know how their government handled the immigration applications of these two Muslim terrorists. At least that’s the argument used by the Boston newspaper that requested the information from DHS. The paper asked for the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a tool often used by Judicial Watch to force transparency in government. In fact, JW is also investigating the Boston bombings and has filed several FOIAs in the case.
As is the common in many of these situations, obtaining records will be an uphill battle because the government can utilize a number of excuses to withhold information from the public. In this particular case, DHS is claiming an exemption in federal law that shields records or information “compiled for law enforcement purposes, the release of which could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
In a rejection letter to the paper, the senior director of FOIA operations at DHS writes that he has determined that the records are part of an open and ongoing law enforcement investigation. “Accordingly, those documents are being withheld,” he says. The DHS FOIA director did not elaborate on how the release of the terrorists’ civil immigration records could possibly interfere with the criminal probe, especially in the case of the dead brother.
Thankfully, the media and independent watchdog groups like JW work to keep the government in check by using important tools like FOIA as well as the legal system. The job is getting tougher and tougher because the Obama administration is using unprecedented intimidation tactics behind the scenes. This includes using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a political tool against conservative groups like JW and unscrupulous spying on a major news conglomerate (Associated Press).
They are filed next to Baraq Ubama’s.
Her Butchness must protect der 0bamafuhrer at all costs!
Very interesting observations, nully. You are a mine of information.
Sound familiar?
Watch DHS's PSA's (public service announcement ads).... Wonder where they got that idea from? Maybe the Boston Herald should take a look into this matter - they've got more surprises to discover...
What GD right does the DHS have to make this secret? The DHS is a rogue department headed by a domestic enemy.
” Obama’s Dreamers ping! “
LOL
I know! It is infuriating. This entire government has become domestic enemies of the American people,freedom and our constitution.
Uncle Ruslan was married the the daughter of the top CIA commander in the Middle East and worked for CIA connected companies. Tamerlan, who had been in contact with the FBI for years and on several terrorist watch lists, went to and came back from a hotbed of Central Asian Islamic extremism, meeting with CIA backed anti-Russian Islamic groups, using a false identity. How the hell does some young punk nobody pull that off without authorization? The answer is he can’t. And now his records are being protected by the DHS? This whole thing stinks.
Marco Rubio, MS Ocho, will give them Amnesty anyway
ACORN went around at Tea Parties handing out ‘Don't tread on me” flags BECAUSE they were selling a story to CNN and the press. Drudge carried it back when the Tea Party movement was started. A Tea Party member got a video of ACORN doing it.
That was used to create a boogie man image BY LIBERALS for what are decent and as it turns out - correct beliefs about what our government is doing.
The press should not be bought with liberal lies.... People who will lie for you will also lie against you.. and the press isn't as safe as they might like to think..
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