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FBI vs.The Public's Need

I'm not defending the FBI for their conduct of the Boston Marathon bombing.  But, you must admit they did a marvelous job of tracking, identifying and harnessing the Boston Marathon bombers.  This is wonderful.   But the pundits are hard at work - what else are they to do?  They want to blame somebody.  For every tragedy there must be blame assigned.  It does not matter that the bombers were rapidly identified ; it does not matter they were caught in a matter of days ; it does not matter they (the FBI) minimized the subsequent lost of life.  We are at the stage of the classic "blame game" The FBI is now blamed for everything .   Why was there not a follow-up on the Tamerlan Tsarnaev visit to Russia, including the alert offered by Russia?  Why were we not alerted to this single cell plotting their nefarious deeds? Why was he not watched continuously?  N aturally , this case could have been overlooked or discounted by a ineffectual investigator.  That is an internal matt