Failed FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller, who was in office when the
September 11th terrorist attacks happened, is being slammed by members
of Congress, people in the domestic and international intelligence
community and mainstream news purveyor Reuters.
Mueller, who is scheduled to leave office shortly, after the government
unadvisedly gave him a two-year extension in the post, going against
decades of established law, is being condemned all over the world for
ignoring "multiple" credible tips from the Russian
government that Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a radical terrorist planning a
deadly attack.
Tsarnaev went on to execute the Boston Marathon bombing, which
killed 3 people, including a child and left 200 others seriously
injured, with over a dozen facing amputation of limbs. Tsarnaev was
killed days later by police in Boston.
Robert S. Mueller
The FBI arrogantly ignored all the tips from the FSB (formerly the
KGB) which the Russian government had picked up
on a wiretap
of Tsarnaev contacting his lawbreaking mother in Russia, speaking about
jihad over the telephone. As stated in the previous article,
The
FBI Under Scrutiny For Failing To Act On Tip Two Years Ago About Boston
Marathon Bomber, this is a pattern of chronic, criminally negligent behavior from the FBI, who've also been given
credible tips by MI6 in Britain and ignored them as well, leading to a
terrorist attack in Detroit (scuppered by plane passengers).
To ignore credible intelligence agencies such as MI6 and the FSB,
shows an inexcusable arrogance and unconscionable pattern of gambling
with innocent people's lives. Thousands of innocent people have died in
terrorist attacks under his watch at the FBI. This time an 8-year-old
boy is dead and it could have been prevented, because the FBI was
warned 2-years-in advance about Tsarnaev.
The FBI likes to tout on its website that
it works with its law enforcement counterparts, domestically and internationally, but once again
said claim has been shown to be untrue.
Additional facts have surfaced since the Boston Bombings which reveal
the FBI is not cooperating with Homeland Security or the CIA as it
should (previously, it was discovered the FBI keeps getting into foolish territorial run-ins with the
ATF).
If this were school the FBI would receive a "does not play well
with others" on its report card and a failing grade. No one can
blame them for what they do not know. However, they can be blamed for
what they do know (and were told well in advance) but let the
unthinkable happen to innocent people anyway.
The CIA is ruthless, reckless and lawbreaking on every level, but
they are competent. U.S. national security would be better handled in
the hands of a competent law enforcement agency, rather than the bumbling FBI. It's time for a new law enforcement
agency in America, as you can be sure, under the FBI, there will be more terrorist
attacks that hit their target in the United States and for the umpteenth time,
the American people will later learn, the FBI knew about the
assailants, but dropped the ball.
Side Bar: Had Congress not given Mueller a 2-year extension
on his post, after such abject failure on his part, maybe they could
have gotten a competent FBI Director in the position, who would have heeded
the Russian government's warnings, thus preventing the Boston Marathon
bombings. I wrote it was a bad idea giving Mueller that extension (
Obama's
Attempts To Reinstall FBI Director Deemed Unconstitutional).
Now innocent people have paid for it with their lives...again...
STORY SOURCE
FBI's longtime director faces criticism of bureau again
WASHINGTON | Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:24am EDT - (Reuters) - As he nears
the end of a dozen years as director of the FBI, Robert Mueller finds
himself defending the agency over its handling of two high-profile
cases. It is a familiar spot for the low-key ex-Marine.
At the request of President Barack Obama, Mueller stayed on for two
years beyond the job's 10-year term to help stabilize law enforcement's
fight against domestic and international threats to U.S. security.
Recent events - the bombing at the Boston Marathon and ricin-laced
letters sent to Obama and a U.S. senator - have left Mueller dealing
with suggestions that agency missteps may have added to the damage.
Mueller, 68, who is scheduled to leave office in early September,
has endured many congressional attacks against his agency's
performance. While he is not universally praised on Capitol Hill, he
has won enough bipartisan support to be considered a success.
Tellingly, it was a target of the 2001 anthrax letters - Democratic
Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont - who told Mueller at a 2008 hearing
that he seriously doubted the findings of the FBI's long and
complicated anthrax investigation. But three years later, Leahy as
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman helped Mueller win a two-year
extension of his term...
"I believe he is well liked, even though I find fault with a
lot of his policies, or how he does things," Senator Charles
Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said in an
interview...
This month, the FBI has faced fresh assaults over its failure to
spot the potential danger from Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the
April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, after Russia asked the bureau to
investigate him two years ago. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a police
shootout and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been charged in the
bombings that killed three people and injured more than 200.
Two senior Republican lawmakers complained Tamerlan Tsarnaev was yet
another in a series of cases in which a person investigated by the
agency had later taken part in attacks. Soon after the Boston bombings, the FBI accused an Elvis
impersonator of sending letters containing ricin to Obama and other
officials, only to quickly drop the charges for a lack of evidence...
Russia contacted US government ‘multiple’ times
April 23, 2013 - WASHINGTON -- Russian authorities alerted the US
government not once but ``multiple’’ times over their concerns
about Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- including a second time nearly a year after
he was first interviewed by FBI agents in Boston -- raising new
questions about whether the FBI should have focused more attention on
the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, according to US senators briefed
on the probe Tuesday.
The FBI has previously said it interviewed Tsarnaev in early 2011
after it was initially contacted by the Russians. After that review,
the FBI has said, it determined he did not pose a threat.
In a closed briefing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Intelligence
Committee learned that Russia alerted the United States about Tsarnaev
in ``multiple contacts’’ -- including ``at least once since October
2011,’’ said Richard Burr, a Republican of North Carolina, speaking
with reporters afterward.
Senators said the briefing also revealed failures among federal
agencies to share vital information about Tsarnaev, indicating, they
said, that the US government still has not established a strong system
to ``connect the dots’’ about would-be terrorists residing in
America more than a decade after 9/11...
The FBI has said it was not aware that Tsarnaev had traveled to
Russia in 2012. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina,
said Monday that the FBI told him it was not aware of the older
Tsarnaev’s travels because his name had been misspelled on an
airliner passenger list. US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet
Napolitano confirmed the misspelling during a hearing before the Senate
Judiciary Committee Tuesday, but she said Homeland Security nonetheless
was aware of his trip...
