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Counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence. that includes the c.i.a., fbi, nsa, atf, dea, dia, dhs, coast guard, pacific command, strategic command and special operations crew. 854,000 people hold top security clearances. redub dancy is rampant. 51 federal organizations, 51 have military commands track money going to and from terrorist networks. retired army general john vines told the "washington post" about the u.s. intelligence system because it lacks a synchronizing process, it has...

U o no system is perfect. and this one is very good again at criminal investigation after the fact. but prediction is another matter. >> it is entirely a different matter. thank you to nbcs michael isikoff up in boston. michael, well be coming to you throughout the week, i hope. coming up, to act or not to act? well look at the delicate foreign policy decision hanging in the balance amid growing concerns that the syrian government has gone over the red line when nbcs richard engel joins us nex...

Herbert and soing us from boston, nbc national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. we just read a litany of statistics regarding how gigantic and perhaps unwieldy the u.s. intelligence network is. we have no doubt ramped up our counterterrorism activities after boston. is there a flaw in the system, namely, is it just too big to catch people like tamerlan tsarnaev and dzhokhar tsarnaev? >> excellent question, alex. while were learning more and more each day about the tsarnaev brothers ...

This after the boston bombing. despite this, tamerlan and his mother were added to the u.s. terror database in 2011. lawmakers are questioning whether the intelligence community should have been better prepared for a possible attack. >> to me, there was enough smoke there that you know whether or not there was fire, there was enough smoke that that investigation should have been kept more active. >> its a failure to share information and missing obvious warning signs, were going back to the pre-...