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Interviewed tamerlan, they have a minimum amount of time to go see somebody, they look for obvious connections and theyre moving on to the next one. the question is putting all these dots together, did the fbi agent in boston responsible for tamerlan know that he went to dagestan. apparently, according to homeland security, the fbi was not pinged when he returned back from dagestan, as i understand it, which is the failure here. secondly, tamerlan should have been interviewed at immigrations whe...

Russian terrorism, going to russia would be seem to be a more of a red flag but there doesnt seem to be any particular red flag that went off when he returned after six months in russia. there is story in "washington post", one single customs officer who was part of a joint terrorism task force in boston was alerted to this you about no sign he alerted to this and shared it with anybody else. in any case he was not actively surveiled when he came back in july of 2012 and we know what happened in...

Investigations open longer to allow more surveillance. we will see more and more attacks coming from within the country rather than coming overseas through here and that will require much more local intelligence. we should have more police departments going out into the community and being proactive. martha: we are told by janet napolitano that no negative information came forward on tamerlan. they found no negative information on him. he was posting jihaddist-like videos on the web and he engag...

He is connecting the dots the evil bad actor that wants global dominance and what happened at the boston marathon bombings? >> that is exactly what he was trying to do. here is a guy who has written for the book that 9/11 was an inside job. he is repeatedly blamed america for just about everything that has gone wrong. we are the villains. the terrorists are somehow the victims. this is how he does business. now, he is in trouble. >> megyn: and hateful posts that have been placed on his blog. he ...

He then goes to a location in russia that is a hot bed for islamic extremism, comes home and starts posting videos on the web of a radicalizer, a radical -- a person who is known to make bombs and kill people. when you think about that, how were the dots not connected? >> yeah, well, when you string that all together, its obvious that dots were connected. i want to be absolutely certain, i am not stating or confirming about the conversations with the cia. we havent got that far yet. i can confir...

Of opportunities as to what they can do including having the person followed. but they have thousands of people on the lists and they have to triage them as to who they think are important. >> thats right. and that could be part of why this happened. let me ask you. so the fbi says, all right, we dont think there is anything here. the russians then go to the cia. the cia says we want this guy added to the terror watch list, which doesnt happen. although hes on other databases. he then goes to a ...

Ricin tainted letters sent to president obama and other officials. the fbis focus has shifted and now searching the site of a former martial arts studio in tupelo, mississippi, and the home of a former politician who was an instructor there. victor blackwell following the developments for us here live in tupelo. have investigators found anything and have they been able to connect the dot here? >> no, and there are more and more dots every day. we do know there was one more search yesterday. i sp...

We had an individual follow that recipe to a t. and in his apartment in hamilton heights, the upper west side was building a bomb in the kitchen of his uncle, per se. and that bomb was going to be a pipe bomb. and essentially, you know, following the same type of recipe that the two brothers might have followed. so they may not have had experience overseas, but they probably did test it out somewhere else. we have seen other examples where zazi was going to attack the subway in 2009, he experime...

Its unclear what he was doing in chechnya. there is -- >> brian: also to add, its one of the worst areas in the world. it has russian intelligence intimidated. we know the c.i.a. and f.b.i. both tipped off by russian intelligence to put him on a watch list. this guy is hanging out with really bad, brutal people. >> steve: there he is. according to the "wall street journal" today, he was put on two different watch lists. the russians contacted the f.b.i. in march of 2011 and then in 2011 septembe...

Was an influence on tamerlan and ultimately, how he was an influence on his younger brother. the role of the mother, as we talked about before, is fascinating. did she have some sort of role here? well have to find that out as well. when you look at what has been reported up to this stage and what the fbi had its possession, in terms of preliminary inquiry, they really could not go much further because the attorney general guidelines prevent anything more because of concern about civil liberties...