It was pretty amazing that in NYC/NJ it took less than 24 hours to find and capture that guy that decided to blow things up over the weekend. That suggests to me, we’re doing a pretty good job on things.
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What was the complaint about the NSA again? Seems to me they are doing the job they are suppose to be doing.
Wrong. Zero to do with the NSA and intrusive surveillance, everything to do with police work and luck. As far as I know, it went like this:
(1) Device went off on 23rd Street, NYC
(2) Device did not go off on 27th Street, NYC
(3) Fingerprint was found on the unexploded device
(4) Fingerprint was matched to Mr. Rahmani, who had previous police contact
(5) An alert (including emergency alert to phones) went out about Rahmani, who was found sleeping on a street in a nearby NJ town.
(6) Rahmani was also caught on video tossing the bombs in a trash bin in a NJ train station
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Claims have been made that the fingerprint was secondary confirmation. The prints were on the phone that was attached to the pressure cooker. The phone had the owners contacts, photographs, texts, and pretty strong evidence of who the phone belonged to. I’m not dismissing the fine police work. But this may have been a case of the police entering the case when all the clues had already been revealed, and all they had to do is give the final answer.
