Law enforcement should stop screwing around and bring in the one person who can explain the Tsarnaev investigation to the media – Emily Litella 👿

Marcy Wheeler digs up two hints of the farce this has become – 1) the megabuck facial recognition software couldn’t identify the Tsarnaev brothers despite their identity photographs in the immigration files and the Massachusetts DMV; and 2) the NYPD claims about a plan to target Times Square would appear to be based on a photograph Jokhar posted on his VKontact [Russian version of Facebook] page of his trip with friends to NYC, and comments heard by the car hijacking victim.

Most people aren’t aware that the FBI has thrown billions of dollars at various computer systems, and still has nothing that actually functions. That the photo recognition system is worthless is hardly surprising with their track record, and the general functionality of things purchased in response to the War on Terror™.

Then Charlie Pierce locates an interview with “Misha”. Mikhail “Misha” Allakhverdov, son of an Armenian mother and Ukrainian father, has already been in contact with the FBI about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom he knew when he lived in Boston three years ago. He moved back to Rhode Island to care for his parents and has not had any contact with Tsarnaev since his move.

Why can’t people accept that Tamerlan is a homicidal whacko, just like the guys to did all of the killing at Sandy Hook, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine, etc. His bombs weren’t as sophisticated as those of Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, or Ted Kaszynski, so why are so many people convinced that he had to be part of a conspiracy?

It is definitely time for “Never mind” …