Explosion reported near Boston Marathon finish line

[jhae2.718]

We gather a lot of information, but seem to be able to do nothing with it.

In many ways, the problem is that we gather too much information. It's one thing to have a lot of information; it's another to process it and get actionable intelligence.

This is one of the reasons the TLAs fund a lot of research into data mining.

 

[edward]

In many ways, the problem is that we gather too much information. It's one thing to have a lot of information; it's another to process it and get actionable intelligence.

This is one of the reasons the TLAs fund a lot of research into data mining.

We have spent billions of dollars which was supposed to have solved that problem. We have only succeeded in making the hay stack bigger. Making it more difficult to find the needle.

 

[nsaspook]

We gather a lot of information, but seem to be able to do nothing with it.

That's really too harsh, you rarely hear about the successes until long after the event and the 'daily threat assessment' might have several active cases aimed at stopping events like Boston. These Jihad nuts are everywhere and if you catch one before they actually kill people some loon in the media will claim a setup and a frame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Portland_car_bomb_plot
http://www.salon.com/2010/11/28/fbi_8/

 

[Astronuc]

Some insight into Tamerlan Tsarnaev's downward spiral - A Battered Dream, Then a Violent Path.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/us/shot-at-boxing-title-denied-tamerlan-tsarnaev-reeled.html

 

[Evo]

So, they have found female DNA on the bomb parts and are requesting the older brother's wife's DNA. Where, exactly, did they make these bombs? According to this article bomb parts were found in the apartment of the older brother and his wife. Will we be seeing an arrest in the wife's future?

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that investigators have found female DNA on at least one of the bombs used in the attacks.

Russell and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, lived with their young daughter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Police have said they found bomb material in that apartment

Her lawyers have said she didn't know much about her husband's activities because she spent most of her time working as a health aide near Boston while he was home watching the child.

http://news.yahoo.com/medical-examiner-keeps-private-boston-bombing-suspect-died-213908810.html

I read that she worked part time, making ~$1,200 a month, which is why they were receiving welfare.

Come on, even if she worked full time, she didn't notice bombs being made in her apartment? Maybe she didn't ask what they were planning to do with them, but it's hard to believe she didn't know it wasn't normal.

 

[nsaspook]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/justice/florida-fbi-shooting-boston/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

CNN) -- Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.

Ibragim Todashev, who died during the interview with authorities, not only confessed to his direct role in slashing the throats of three people in Waltham, Massachusetts, but also fingered Tsarnaev in the deaths, the official said Wednesday.
...
Todashev was being interviewed in the kitchen of his Florida home. He grabbed a knife, which is why fatal force was used, according to a source briefed on the ongoing investigation.

"Preliminary information indicates the agent took actions to defend himself," said a federal law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case.

"The agent sustained non-life-threatening injuries," FBI spokesman Jason Pack said.

 

[encorp]

Interesting.

 

[lisab]

Interesting.

In a :yuck: kind of way.

 

[aquitaine]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/justice/florida-fbi-shooting-boston/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Kind of funny how you don't hear anything for a month about this. Then, once you thought it was over and done with it just comes roaring back.