It’s unconscionable that a government agency calling itself the Department of Homeland Security would rationalize “dragging its feet” on Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 6-month-old citizenship request due to his previous FBI interview somehow proves that they were doing their job.

They said this decision to delay his application proved his encounter with the F.B.I. did not go unnoticed by the Department of Homeland security.

How reassuring! Let that sink in. Tamerlan Tsarnaev had “an encounter” with the FBI and it didn’t “go unnoticed” by DHS. Got that?

Forget that said “encounter” resulted from the Russian government alerting our government of Tsarnaev’s ties to a radical terrorist abroad. Forget that he had already had “an encounter” with law enforcement for domestic battery. And most of all, forget that he was already well down the road to displaying the radical religious tendencies associated with this type of terrorism.

Forget all that, because the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t ready to simply let him have his citizenship. No, they were going to show him a thing, or two, they decided to drag their heels! Wow! I feel so much damned safer now knowing that government workers who drag their heels when they encounter what turns out to be a deadly terrorist are watching my back. Don’t you?

The Department of Homeland Security was dragging its feet on processing Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s U.S. citizenship after a routine background check revealed he had been questioned by the FBI in 2011. Tamerlan, 26, filed an application for citizenship six months ago but immigration officials had not yet made a decision on his case at the time of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Authorities knew the alleged bomber had a domestic violence charge on his record but the fact he had been grilled by federal agents is reportedly what threw up red flags, halting the progress of his application. It’s not clear what the 26-year-old, who was killed early Friday, was told about why his application was facing delays.

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