The bombings in Boston have raised many questions and this writing will raise even more competing hypotheses that hopefully, make the reader think beyond the current media barrage. The use of social media in this case created immediate decisions without credibility, reliability, or validation of sources. The number of videos, images, and data feeds hit our senses like the driving rain from a hurricane. The data explosion fed directly into the mindset of Americans. We ate the data as fast as it presented itself. Methods of manipulation and psychological cyber warfare play our psyche like pawns on a chessboard.”]