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WhoWhatWhy has discovered that the FBI secretly flagged at least one of the Boston Marathon bombers as a terrorist threat in his immigration records, despite publicly denying it had done so.
This designation existed right up to the time the bombs went off at Boylston St. on April 15, 2013.
Tamerlan Tsarnaevs heavily redacted immigration records, known as an A-file (alien file), were released in February under the Freedom of Information Act and posted online by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). FOIA has a frequently requested record provision where multiple request for the same record triggers a reading room (posted online) treatment of the records. WhoWhatWhy was one of those requesters.
For context, its important to note that soon after the bombing, uncomfortable questions were raised by WhoWhatWhy when it became clear the FBI had long been aware of Tsarnaev. Even some of the mainstream outlets, which almost uniformly have accepted the governments version of events, couldnt ignore this reality.
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/05/11/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-immigration-records-reveal-fbi-bombshell/
Laughing Mirror
(4,185 posts)And they waited too long.
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)Although not the only way.
And yet a shadowy program used by the feds to keep individuals deemed a national security concern from obtaining citizenship looks like the reason Tsarnaevs naturalization application was held up to the very moment of his death. This program is called the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP).
Significantly, CARRP is also used to manipulate foreign nationals (mostly Muslims) to do the FBIs bidding by ironically flagging them as a national security concern, according to an extensive ACLU investigation into the program.
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/05/11/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-immigration-records-reveal-fbi-bombshell/
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)Is anybody brave enough to say that this wing of the FBI is being used for a devilish recipe of terrorizing psyops by committing atrocious crimes in order to frame and blame others, which is designed to herd the populace to actions, like endless war, that the elite desire and to socially engineer denying people more of their rights?
Can't find a way to link to the comment directly. Right now it's the second down from the top in the comments section.
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/05/11/tamerlan-tsarnaevs-immigration-records-reveal-fbi-bombshell/
islandmkl
(5,275 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)..never does anything wrong.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Chechnya and Dagestan has also been overlooked.
As is the fact that he was a person of interest in a murder case in Massachusetts but nonetheless managed to leave the country and come back without any problem, despite the fact that he isn't a US Citizen, after being denied Naturalization on the basis described by this article.
The whole family came into the US on "CIA visas." The Boston Bombing was yet another case of a CIA operation gone bad, and the FBI having its hands tied. Like 9/11.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Edit. Was married to chiefs daughter
leveymg
(36,418 posts)I knew that his uncle was associated with the Agency in some way, and that Tsarnaev's father was at some point a former Soviet officer who de facto defected. I seem to recall that exfiltration was during the second Chechnya war after the Soviet Union collapsed.
I take it the direct link to more recent Agency employees has been pointed out by WhoWhatWhy? Links? Thanks.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You think young, impressionable people are going to go rogue terrorist all by themselves? It takes months and months of careful deception to inflame an 18-year-old into committing a terrorist act with ersatz explosives so the Feds can swoop in at the Moment of Truth and bust them. With that on their plates, they don't really have time to go investigating every suspicious person who is actually planning to set off a bomb at a public event.