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Stove piping issues that pre-dated 9/11. i think we have fixed a lot of those problems. what we may see here in a way a more striking conclusion, that is that in a free and open society even when you do everything right, you still may not be able to prevent a group of people willing to kill themselves using relatively low tech means. >> so much more comforting to say, if we just connected the dots we could have figured this out. >> exactly. but i think we might do a disservice to the american pe...

The whole community, the whole intel community. >> right. youve got a guy in your city, et cetera, et cetera. >> i dont think weve seen any stove piping issues that pre-dated 9/11. i think we have fixed a lot of those problems. what we may see here in a way a more striking conclusion, that is that in a free and open society even when you do everything right, you still may not be able to prevent a group of people willing to kill themselves using relatively low tech means. >> so much more comforti...

Rise to a federal investigation. >> so local police wouldnt have connected the dots when tamerlan tsarnaev? >> like i said, i dont know basically what were they thinking or what was the evidence or material that they were receiving pursuant to their investigation. thats just something that the police would have to explain why tamerlan never came up, why he wasnt contacted and interviewed. >> and i want to talk a little bit about this laptop that authorities are looking for in this dump. it seems...

Little bit and saying, in part, my only effort was to suggest that in addition to bringing the perpetrators to justice, this could be an occasion for collective self-scrutiny as a nation and as a people. >> in his explanation, he said he wasnt trying to connect any bots, but he was trying to connect the dots and the dots were that the world has been enraged by american conduct in the war on terror, in the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, the bush administration in general and this is what ha...

Have to make sure those dots are connected. we are going to be having hearings in early may at the homeland security committee to ask those questions. we do not know if thoses were connected. and -- >> let me stop you there. >> its a dangerous world. >> the russian task force presented to the u.s. counterterrorism group evidence nine months before the attack that said this guy is a jihaddist. it was shared with one individual at the u.s. and customs protection assigned to the boston joint terror...

Little bit. he says the only effort was to suggest in addition to grieving and bringing the pe perpetratos to justice -- he only said it after he was outraged. >> he says he wasnt trying to connect any dots but he was. and the dots were are that the world has been enrage by american conduct and the war on terror, the war in afghanistan and the war in iraq. the bush administration in general and this is what happened. he called and he is an american, remember, he called the united states a menace...

Somebodys private information. i got to say, in a day and age when if you go on your own personal computer and google pop-up ads, when american political campaigns can figure out what subscription youre going to get to a magazine, how the united states intelligence service is not seeing these guys coming and not connecting the dots? were ten years out from september 11. september 11 commission report said one of the biggest problems that led to september 11 was our intelligence communities and v...

Threat. wait a minute. this is a guy who had espoused jihadi beliefs. he visited web sites that talked about how to build bombs, inspire magazine. he went to the hotbed place in the world for terrorists and yet, somehow hes a low level threat? what do you have to do to get some attention from the united states intelligence services? so i am not buying it. i think that it was a real failure of connecting the dots. one agency not talking to another agency. one agency saying, well, the russians gav...

Evidence meaning that you can connect the physiological evidence. you can look at some blood. the kind of evidence that you can actually take, for example, to the united nations and say -- >> irrefutable. >> -- we have irrefutable evidence that this is being used and its being used by the assad regime against its own people. so we have not connected all the dots yet to make sure, and i really appreciate the fact that the president rather than just going in guns blazing is taking a very deliberat...

Wouldnt we like to know who else did you talk to? is there a cell in the united states? who was this mysterious man, misha? what did your brother do when he went to dagestan? all these questions, we dont know the answers to those now. i fault the intelligence community for not connecting the dots and seeing them coming and i fault the justice department to once they have the guy in custody, to not let that interrogation go on. >> arthel: director clapper said finding the bombers in advance would...