Michelle Obama visits Saudi National At Boston Hospital

NOW WE CAN ALL SLEEP A LITTLE MORE PEACELESSLY AT NIGHT (why terror should keep us up!)

We cried with Bostonians on Monday as the full impact of the marathon bombing became apparent. Likewise, we celebrated Friday night with these same communities as well, when the second terrorist bombing suspect was finally captured.

Now in hindsight, there are several conclusions to the matter that should leave all Americans sleeping a little less restful at night. Not only were these brothers open about their radical Islamist ideas, putting out copious information on Twitter and posting Jihadist message videos on YouTube, but the older brother had traveled multiple  times back to Russia for extended periods. The real kicker that should keep us all up at night though, is that it has been revealed that the Russian government had tipped off our own FBI to the fact that they had reason to believe that the brothers had terrorist ties in Russia and had asked the U.S. to investigate them. Our own FBI did a full investigation and found no cause for concern! The FBI cleared them and reported it as such back to Russia.

These brothers have by all accounts been becoming radicalized since ’08. They had an active social media presence espousing radical Islamist views for at least the past two years. This coupled with trips out of the country SHOULD HAVE raised red flags amongst the multitudinous alphabet soup monitoring agencies that we pay to protect us. WHY DID IT NOT HAPPEN?

It has become clear that the focus has been taken off the ball and we need to know why! Until then, we will all sleep a little more  peacelessly at night.

Vince Schmuki