Napolitano: DHS Knew Of Boston Bomber Russia Trip

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday 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. A key lawmaker had said that the misspelling caused the FBI to miss the trip.

Napolitano's disclosure came as news to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who 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 as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on sweeping immigration legislation.

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. But she said that by the time he came back six months later, an FBI alert on him had expired and so his re-entry was not noted.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Wow...all the fusion centers, all the wiretaps on our mail and phone calls and internet use..

in vain...
imagine that.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Graham is still a douchebag.

Even if mistakes were made. Fuck that guy, and his bullshit agenda.

[pediatricmedic]

7. Not in vain, foreign terrorists are not the target of those efforts

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Seems we had the cooperation with Russian intelligence until we pushed on more info then

they shut us out and we had no evidence to curtail these brothers so they were off the radar. Randi Rhodes is all over this. I went to her homework section to find the link. I found this so far;

.http://www.jpost.com/International/Tsarnaev-mother-My-son-was-under-FBI-surveillance-310477
US government officials have said the brothers were not under surveillance as possible militants.But the FBI said in a statement on Friday that in 2011 it interviewed Tamerlan at the request of a foreign government, which it did not identify.It said the matter was closed because interviews with Tamerlan and family members "did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign".

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/the-russian-connection-what-can-moscows-tip-tell-us-about-the-boston-bombings.php
The specific groups that were the subject of Russia’s inquiry about Tsarnaev have not been identified. The Russian embassy in Washington has not responded to a request for comment on this story.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/politics/boston-bombings-fbi/index.html
The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members," it said in the statement on Friday. "The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011."

In addition, the FBI "requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government," its statement said.

[snappyturtle]

2. Geez how lame! Janet Napolitano is feeble with this 'explanation'.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Ugh. Just wait, Lindsey Graham will get his teeth into this and it will be the new Benghazi

[leveymg]

5. The agencies all share much the same data, and all have systems that parse "misspellings". Such BS

is only believed by a gullible public and a dumbed-down corporate media fed this stuff as CYA.

[asjr]

6. Lindsey Graham is the thorn in the side of every

one in this country. He will always make trouble because he has an ego the size of Australia. He craves attention. He will always be a nay-sayer, along with his buddy McCain. They are like children who want to be the heroes in the school play because they think they deserve it. They take up all the time relegated to inquiries about certain things. They run overtime so they can be heard. They are like tapeworms one can see coming out of the cat's ass. It starts to come out and then snaps back into the cat's ass before anyone sees it. And continues to wreak havoc with the health of the animal. But they have so many allies.