[PJM and Victor Davis Hanson]
The CIA and FBI knew of the suspicious activity of the Boston bombers, of Major Hasan, and of Anwar al-Awlaki. And they did nothing to preempt their violence. The FBI is said to be carefully avoiding monitoring mosques, although all of the above terrorists were known by many fellow Muslim worshipers to be either disturbed or extremist or both.
Successful ornithology requires that nests be watched at a great distance and not be disrupted, but I doubt this was actually the case. |