Support Your FBI
You can start by sending them stainless steel colanders™ because they are absolutely, positively convinced that the Tsarnaev brothers couldn’t have followed written instructions and done what they did without a cast of thousands to show them the way.
They have already arrested Jokhar’s buddies, the Three Stooges, but when that didn’t go anywhere they decided to target Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva. They have nothing to link her to the bombs or the plot, but they are going to harass her because where there’s a Muslim there’s always a conspiracy.
I would point out that the lack of a conspiracy is probably why no one noticed what Tamerlan was up to before the event. Secrets are best kept by one, but sometimes two people can manage. If the Three Stooges had known anything, the world would have known it after a six-pack. If the FBI understood what it was like to work 70 hours/week for months, they wouldn’t have bothered to ask the woman her name.
I wonder if they are going to file conspiracy charges against the FBI people who recruited and trained Abdalla Ahmad Tounisi. They radicalized him, and then arrested him, as they have done many times before. Have they ever considered that their actions are actually illegal and illogical to an outsider. They aren’t acting any differently than al Qaeda recruiters.
[Marcy Wheeler is doing her usual great job on this theater of the absurd.]
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If she’s been working 70 hour weeks for months, I doubt she could even *remember* her name at the end of all that. Those kinda hours really take it out of you, especially if it’s a job where you’re always on your feet, like her job apparently is.
We’ve both done start-ups and worked those hours. When you get home, you hit the shower, then a bite, then bed. You get up and grab some caffeine and leave. Someone could be raising llamas in the living room and you wouldn’t notice.