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Al qaeda factor," mitch silva director for international peace and cnn contributor, bob baer. bob, let me come to you. we have talked almost every night about this. from the point of view of the fbi, perhaps, dropping the ball. now the cia appear to have also been warned about tamerlan tsarnaev. what do you read into this? has there been a fairly catastrophic intelligence failure here? >> it's systemic, absolutely. there is no other way to describe it, as a failure. immigrations didn't tell the fbi he was leaving. immigrations didn't tell the fbi that he was coming back. we don't know what the...

Dzhokhar tsarnaev indicates he and his brother were self radicalized jihadists. family members believe outside influences were to blame, including a mystery friend named misha. joining me now is author of "the al qaeda factor," mitch silva director for international peace and cnn contributor, bob baer. bob, let me come to you. we have talked almost every night about this. from the point of view of the fbi, perhaps, dropping the ball. now the cia appear to have also been warned about tamerlan tsarnaev. what do you read into this? has there been a fairly catastrophic intelligence failure here? >...

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Can get on with your life. thank you for joining me. >> thank you so much. >> joining me now is author of "the al qaeda factor." cnn contributor and operative robert bayer and attorney allen --. let me start with you, if i may. the new york city police department. a lot of growing belief in some way the fbi dropped the ball in this investigation. that they had this guy on their sights. russian authorities to interview them. hen he wept back to russia for a mystery six months they lost track of it. >> yeah. i think it's one of the issues where one has to evaluate the set of facts. >> knowing th...