Posted on 04/23/2013 9:23:55 AM PDT by montag813
Slipped through her fingers: Big sis admits DHS knew Boston jihadist traveled to Russia in 2012.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stunned a Senate panel when she admitted that her agency knew of alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's trip to Russia last year even though his name was misspelled on a travel document, as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on sweeping immigration amnesty legislation.
The admission that her department was aware of Tsarnaev's six-month trip to Dagestan - a hotbed of radical Islamic activity - surprised two 'Gang of Eight' senators, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who had been using an the hearing to try and establish that the DHS didn't catch his travels under the current visa system, and that their amnesty bill would fix the apparent glitch. This was clearly not the case, raising further disturbing questions about why U.S. security services failed to keep track of the man who went on to kill 4 people in Boston last week.
Both senators had claimed that the misspelling caused the FBI to miss the trip. Graham, told the secretary that it contradicted what he'd been told by the FBI:
"They told me that they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back so I would like to talk to you more about this case," Graham told Napolitano.
Napolitano said that even though Tsarnaev's name was misspelled, "redundancies in the system" allowed his departure to be captured by U.S. authorities in January 2012:
"The system pinged when he was leaving the United States. By the time he returned all investigations had been closed," Napolitano said.
The Russia trip is now seen as important to determining how and when Tsarnaev, the older Boston bomber who died in a firefight with police, became radicalized, and whether he had ties to others.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was investigated by the FBI at Russia's request and his name was included in a federal government travel-screening database after that, law enforcement officials have told The Associated Press.
As SWA reported yesterday, Russian security services warned the FBI in November 2012 that Tsarnaev was seen meeting – six times – with a person involved in militant Islamic underground movement in Dagestan. This Islamist leader, Gadzhimurad Dolgatov (who also went by the name Amir Abu Dujana) was killed after a fierce gunbattle with Russian security forces in Dagastan in December 2012
The visit “would lead one to believe that that’s probably where he got that final radicalization to push him to commit acts of violence and where he may have received training” in terrorist techniques, U.S. House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Rogers told NBC.
Yet another claim by the amnesty advocates is exposed, and a new twist to the disturbing story of the "jihadist who got away" emerges which further undermines trust that the DHS can effectively protect Americans from the massive increase of foreigners with visas that the 'Gang of Eight' bill would bring to our shores.
At this point, what difference does it make? Right?
She is under enormous pressure to build and equip her private army and formulate her Master Plan to round up Bitter Clingers, patriots, Tea Party members and constitutionalists.
Well, yes. At least you’d think. But I’m of the persuasion that anything nefarious involving events, HE’s BEEN TOLD categorically!
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“The System Worked.” Right?
BREAKING NEWS!!!! Lezbo takes the heat for leftist President screw-up/treason
H/T: Clinton, Reno, Ubama, Nappy
Why is she not resigning?
Why is the President not resigning?
Does anyone in government take responsibility for anything?
This ugly anti American lesbo b$tch was directing her SS troopers to focus on evil Christian Males, who were honorably discharged from the military, had zero criminal arrest records, married to the Mother of his children, employed, didn’t use illegal drugs, and of course legally owned guns, hunted and were Republicans..
for Obama to “know” would mean he actually attended his national security briefings.
Wait a sec. They knew he had just left the country to return to the place where Russia had warned us he had previously met with known terrorists and the response was to CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION?
I would go so far as to say that Jarret, Obama and. Ompany are the ring leaders of any nefarious activities like this that are occurring.
Napolitano needs to resign immediately!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011314/posts
Russian intel: Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with suspected Chechen militant several times
Hotair ^ | 04/23/2013 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:59:19 AM by SeekAndFind
CBS isn’t letting the thread drop on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s six-month odyssey in the Caucasus, and neither are federal investigators, apparently. Russian intelligence says that the elder brother in the Boston Marathon bombing met with a suspected militant on several occasions while staying in Dagestan, and the US is taking a closer look at those contacts even as the younger brother insists the two acted alone:
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The Wall Street Journal has more:
U.S. investigators are looking into a Russian intelligence report that alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with a suspected militant during his six-month visit to Russia in 2012, according to American law-enforcement officials.
In the aftermath of the bombings, some American counterterrorism officials received information from law-enforcement officials in Makhachkala, Dagestan, detailing alleged contacts between Mr. Tsarnaev and a suspected militant being tracked by Russian officials, according to a law-enforcement official briefed on the Boston Marathon investigation.
It’s not just Tsarnaev that’s being investigated either, but also the FBI:
The accuracy of that report and whether it was shared before the attack in Boston is a subject of debate. According to one account, Russia’s security service told the Federal Bureau of Investigation about it in November. U.S. law-enforcement officials said they didn’t receive any such information and are trying to determine if it is true.
Mr. Tsarnaev’s intersection with Russia security authorities came after he was interviewed by FBI agents in the U.S. in 2011. How these contacts were handled by both countries likely will be critical in determining whether officials missed possible warning signs, and whether poor communications between the two countries hampered cooperation.
Almost immediately after the FBI’s first contacts with Tsarnaev became known, Russia insisted that they tried to warn the US about him, and that the FBI didn’t respond to them. The FBI now claims the same thing about Russian intelligence:
The FBI interview was conducted at Russia’s request and produced no suspicious links, said a senior U.S. law enforcement official. Repeated follow-up questions to Russian authorities about Mr. Tsarnaev went unanswered, U.S. officials said.
It’s possible that Tsarnaev’s six-month trip to Dagestan didn’t produce any contacts with radicals in the area, and that Tamerlan’s decision to conduct terror attacks was entirely independent. That would make the Dagestan adventure very coincidental, though, and it’s difficult to believe that his sudden fanaticism and identification with radical Islamists on his return less than a year ago had no roots at all in his geographic juxtaposition with radical Islamists in the Caucasus. So far, it seems that the Russians consider that theory a little fantastical, too.
And living in a penthouse apartment.
What?
How on earth this woman still has a job is beyond me.
“this bill needs to be killed”
Yes, and then we need to go step by step. First a bill to do nothing but improve border security. After that’s implemented to our satisfaction (whatever that means), then take the next step.
Also, measures to ensure that aliens aren’t a drain on our finances, and that they carry foolproof identification, and that employers check those identifications, could be concurrently legislated.
For now, forget about the “path to citizenship” because for one thing there already is one.
She's just another figurehead reporting to Zer0. She resigns and a clone will take her place.
BUT....BUT...but...All of the MSM TOLD us the Terrorists bombers' actions were due to their exposure 'failed' American culture.
Makes you wonder how many others?
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