Boston: Will This Be Another Benghazi?

I am not yet ready to buy into the various conspiracy theories that are floating around out there that the Tsarnaev brothers were double agents that had been recruited by the FBI and went bad, but there sure is a lot of fog out there.

Admittedly, there is a lot of sensitive data that the government may rightly be choosing not to make public, and sometimes this feeds into the cover-up theories. Unfortunately, with this administration, we have lots of precedents from Fast and Furious to Benghazi.

Janet Napolitano failed to clear anything up when she refused to answer Congressman Jeff Duncan's (R-SC) pointed questions about Mr Al Harbi, the young Saudi who was treated for injuries in a Boston hospital. Now Glenn Beck is adding new information regarding this guy that if true, only adds fuel to the fire. The meeting between John Kerry and Saudi officials may have been a coincidence. The visit of the Saudi Consul General to Al Harbi in the hospital may have been natural when it was learned that one of their citizens was injured in the blast. However, these things need to be explained while protecting the investigation.

In addition, the administration's refusal to admit the possibility of foreign assistance to the Tsarnaevs only deepens the suspicion although there could be legitimate reasons for not tipping our hand as the investigation proceeds. In that vein, the revelation that the Russian secret service passed Tamarlan Tsarnaev's name to the FBI two years ago as a suspicious person is very troublesome. Apparently, the FBI found no problems in checking him out. They apparently were also unaware (at least they say so) that he traveled recently to Dagestan for 6 months and returned. Yet, Janet Napolitano testified last week that his trip "pinged" the system. Huh? In addition, his name was apparently missed because his name was spelled differently on the ticket.

But it gets worse. The Boston Globe is now reporting that the Russians alerted the FBI not once-but multiple times.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/23/russia-contacted-fbi-multiple-times-concerns-about-alleged-boston-marathon-bomber/ND0bhUdq1Tp1mRuC8xlb8N/story.html?s_campaign=8315

Meanwhile, this guy was receiving welfare benefits!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/24/tamerlan-tsarnaev-reportedly-on-state-welfare-benefits-while-delved-into/

But as we already know, DHS under Napolitano has become little more than a Rube Goldberg operation-perhaps by design.

So I am reluctant to accept that the Brothers Tsarnaev had no foreign assistance, let alone something that could fall under our conspiracy statutes. The Russians didn't alert the FBI because they were reading Tamerlan's mind while he was in the US. They had clearly connected him to something in their country.

There can be no stone left unturned after this latest attack on our soil. Some of these stories that are turning up may be no more than speculation or conspiracy theories, but after Fast and Furious and Benghazi, trust for this administration is not at a high level.