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>> after yesterdays extraordinary testimony on capitol hill before the house homeland security committee, the boston cops nor massachusetts law enforcement were told by the fbi about the bureaus investigation into tamerlan in 2011. another senior lawmaker came to the fbis defense. >> i just think its too soon to say that bill. and, for this reason. think about what they did. they checked all the electronic footprint of this individual. they did interviews. they did data base checks. all database...

North caucasus, you would want our foreign capabilities focused on hip. theyre going to make sure a ball wasnt dropped either domestically or overseas. >> mike leiter, concerned about that? >> its not the clear to me that the report to the fbi said he was associated with a terrorist group. he might have been radicalized but thats very different and might raise a -- if not yellow flag but i dont think a red flag to the fbi. >> chairman rogers, youve been an fbi agent. you are now chair of the int...

Our foreign capabilities focused on hip. theyre going to make sure a ball wasnt dropped either domestically or overseas. >> mike leiter, concerned about that? >> its not the clear to me that the report to the fbi said he was associated with a terrorist group. he might have been radicalized but thats very different and might raise a -- if not yellow flag but i dont think a red flag to the fbi. >> chairman rogers, youve been an fbi agent. you are now chair of the intelligence committee. was someth...

Terrorists. >> geraldo: if he is going back to russia how are they getting him go back to russia if two years earlier they asked the united states to check him out if they said he was returning to the dark side, radical islam. >> to provide perspective. incredibly dram ironjack and emotional event right now. if a service a friendly service now a friendly service like the fsv makes that request to the fbi and the fbi does a preliminary investigation and interview the individual and run database c...

Terrorists. >> geraldo: if he is going back to russia how are they getting him go back to russia if two years earlier they asked the united states to check him out if they said he was returning to the dark side, radical islam. >> to provide perspective. incredibly dram ironjack and emotional event right now. if a service a friendly service now a friendly service like the fsv makes that request to the fbi and the fbi does a preliminary investigation and interview the individual and run database c...

Terrorists. >> geraldo: if he is going back to russia how are they getting him go back to russia if two years earlier they asked the united states to check him out if they said he was returning to the dark side, radical islam. >> to provide perspective. incredibly dram ironjack and emotional event right now. if a service a friendly service now a friendly service like the fsv makes that request to the fbi and the fbi does a preliminary investigation and interview the individual and run database c...

And its important to note that that case was closed prior to his travel. so i dont think they missed anything. if you look at their digital footprint, they went through all the database checks and they did, and you did the thorough interviews that you would expect them to do in a case like this, they did, and at some point they asked, is there more clarifiering information and never received that clarifying information, at some point they have nothing. and so you cant ask them to do something wi...

November, and he told agents that u.s. intelligence were forcing him to watch isis propaganda videos. he appeared agitated and incoherrent during that video. indicating he was suffering from some kind of mental condition. he mentioned a deployment to iraq. santiago deployed to iraq from april 2010 to february 2011 with the puerto rico national guard. we confirm that with the army. after returning, he joined the army reserves and the alaska national guard. last august he was discharged for poor p...