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MSNBC's Witt On FBI Failure To Monitor Boston Bomber After Interview: 'Hindsight Is 20-20'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 04/20/2013 11:13:05 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

This NewsBuster is in no position to say that the FBI made a mistake by deciding not to monitor Tamerlan Tsarnaev after having interviewed him in 2011, acting on inquiries from Russian intelligence regarding his possible radical Islamic ties.

But by the same token, MSNBC host Alex Witt is in no position to say the FBI didn't make a mistake. Yet Witt has pre-emptively proferred an excuse for the FBI's decision. Speaking with investigative reporter Michael Isikoff on her show this afternon, Witt, alluding to the FBI's decision not to monitor Tzarnaev, declared: "hindsight is 20-20."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alexwitt; fbi; msnbc; tamerlantsarnaev
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1 posted on 04/20/2013 11:13:05 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

MSNBC starts to circle the wagons . . . Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 11:13:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They were much too busy monitoring gun owning Christian veterans.


3 posted on 04/20/2013 11:17:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Exactly, and STILL NO MENTION of obammy’s cutting funding for the FBI bomb squads.


4 posted on 04/20/2013 11:20:05 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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Why wasn’t he at least considered a top suspect after the bombing? They had video of the suspects. he would be a close match facial features, body weight, age, height.


5 posted on 04/20/2013 11:21:38 AM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Amazing. MSNBC is a completely Soviet-ized propaganda organ, NO different than PRAVDA.

'Hindsight Is 20-20'... you aholes are not in the business of hindsight. ANYONE can look back. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FORWARD-THINKING.

6 posted on 04/20/2013 11:21:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I know that Alex Witt is an easy target..but she's by far the best-looking 50+ female on any of the cable news networks...
7 posted on 04/20/2013 11:22:30 AM PDT by ken5050 (My tagline has mysteriously vanished...)
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To: Jim Robinson

He has a good point. How in the hell is the FBI going to monitor the 123,744 RADICAL MUSLIM EXTREMISTS currently enjoying preferential treatment in our dying republic?

It is more than they can do to check the resumes of the 7,498 additional that are admitted EVERY DAY.

The illegal aliens, luckily, don’t have to be checked. They are INVISIBLE...


8 posted on 04/20/2013 11:24:04 AM PDT by Huebolt (A country that has tipped will fall. RIP USA)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Actually we don’t know the FBI didn’t have someone monitoring him BUT until he did something ‘ actionable” what could we do?

he wasn’t active enough to be tailed 24/7
As vile as he was there wasn’t anything we could do unless we saw him buying ‘bomb’ supplies.


9 posted on 04/20/2013 11:26:20 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Huebolt

Kick them OUT!! Lock them OUT!! They are at war with us!!


10 posted on 04/20/2013 11:27:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

MSNBC have been given their WH instructions now in light of the earth shattering news that they both know is coming out Monday. This is ground prep and shaping the narrative.

Should we expect anything else from these American hating traitors? No

Stay tuned for Monday and breaking news from The Blaze. I know some here are skeptical of Glenn Beck, but this sounds like the real deal on what is going on behind the scenes. 6 US congressmen have the information and have verified it and various and numerous sources from inside the government are leaking it. There are patriots that have finally had enough. If it is as bad as they are hinting and what some of us here have already found...it will be so odious that even some democrats will be forced to sign impeachment proceedings by the end of it all. Big Sis will be the first to be thrown under the bus, but the buck will stop with the administration...hopefully.


11 posted on 04/20/2013 11:31:41 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Remember how Bush was personally responsible because a lowly FBI agent in Minnesota wrote a memo to her boss about Zacarias Moussaoui?


12 posted on 04/20/2013 11:32:39 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

” They were much too busy monitoring gun owning Christian veterans.”

Folks, we have a WINNER!


13 posted on 04/20/2013 11:33:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: stephenjohnbanker

The FBI is no longer the outfit portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. years ago. It is a diluted P.C. joke.


14 posted on 04/20/2013 11:35:55 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: snowstorm12
Why wasn’t he at least considered a top suspect after the bombing?

I'm pretty sure he was. In fact they chased him down and killed him. If you are implying that every single person ever questioned by law enforcement should be maintained in an active surveillance database and monitored 24/7/365 then you are advocating a police state that I am certainly not interested in living in. Only the tinfoil crowd will be suggesting that the FBI let him go so he could commit mayhem. Whatever their reason for releasing him, the truth is hindsight IS 20/20. Newsbusters has recently been given to hyperbole. Business must be slow.

15 posted on 04/20/2013 11:36:13 AM PDT by newheart
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What an idiot. When you are at war with someone, the old “hindsight 20 20” bull**** goes out the window. You must investigate ALL intelligence that you receive about actions your enemy is about to make. Lives are at stake. It appears that we were warned and we blew it off. Big mistake.


16 posted on 04/20/2013 11:38:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Amnesty Bill - 800 pages filled with 400 waivers and exemptions for illegal aliens.)
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To: RWGinger
As vile as he was there wasn’t anything we could do unless we saw him buying ‘bomb’ supplies.

We should have kick him out of the country....twice.

Once when he assaulted his wife. And then again when we got the warning.

17 posted on 04/20/2013 11:39:32 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
We should have kick him out of the country....twice.

That could have been done but Eric Holder has higher priorities, like working on deporting homeschooling families from Germany.

18 posted on 04/20/2013 11:47:46 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: newheart

He wasn’t even questioned after the bombing. They were hanging out and going about their daily routine for days. It was only when they robbed the 711 store they popped up on their radar screen. The younger brother went to a gym to work out after the bombing. FBI database shoulda came up with a close match to older brother, he matched the profile of who they were looking for based on the lord and taylor footage, to a T.


19 posted on 04/20/2013 11:49:29 AM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: snowstorm12

Number one they did not rob a 7-11. From what I recall they did a carjacking at a 7-11. Number Two the activity at the 7-11 was AFTER the photos were released to the public.


20 posted on 04/20/2013 11:54:19 AM PDT by newheart
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