Foreign nationals are brought on by companies for many reasons. Espionage is sometimes part of it. It worked out well for Mr. Chalibi from Iraq when the USA decided he was a good guy with a gun. I don't know exactly why companies took an interest in the Uncle. But, it was Russia. Russia has lots of secrets any company wants to know about. Russian oil is coveted by others that should not be coveting those assets.
The point is sometimes knowledge of the language, culture, people, etc. can be invaluable. The young men were brought to the USA for an opportunity to live a better life and get away from a volatile region of Russia. If you were their uncle wouldn't you want to remove them from such dangerous potentials in their young lives? Of, course. It is very unfortunate it all didn't go well. It just seems given all the factors that played into the Boston bombings there would have been better interventions.
The final reality is more likely, all those monies spent on a huge intelligence center to consolidate all this information and provide reasons for agencies to 'talk to each other,' will prove to be nothing more than a huge waste of money like the Embassy in Iraq.
The PROBLEM surrounding September 11, 2001 wasn't really about sharing information. The FBI had one terrorist scoped out. The CIA knew there were problems with the al Qaeda network and issued a warning to the President. The REAL problem that has lead to all these folks running amok in the USA is that the THREAT LEVEL was never lowered enough to actually find the REAL TARGETS OF INTEREST.
Until the Threat Threshold is lowered and these folks can actually be stopped before they carry out their plans against Americans, we can spend trillions upon trillions more and the same would continue to exist and occur in our society.
The information has to be disseminated to local authorities that have competencies to work with FBI and CIA. I might add, that when there are more people in the USA law enforcement community qualified to 'make the trip to Quantico,' the larger the pool for qualified agents.
Currently, we have an FBI Director that was begged to stay for lack of a 'qualified other' to take the position or should I say 'willing' to take the position. If the pool of candidates were larger from across the entire country making their way up the ladder, we would have many qualified leaders for any of the intelligence departments. It is time we did this while adding competency to our nation and standards of intervention to stop this hideous paradigm we all face.
