BREAKING NEWS: Russians Withheld Information on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Finds
(April 9, 2014) The Russian government withheld from the F.B.I. significant information that it had about one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack, according to an inspector general’s review of how federal agencies could have thwarted the bombing.
After an initial investigation by F.B.I. agents in Boston, the Russians rebuffed several requests for additional information that they had about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The new inspector general’s report found that it was only after the bombing occurred last April that the Russians shared with the F.B.I. the additional intelligence, including information from a telephone conversation the Russian authorities had intercepted between Mr. Tsarnaev and his mother in which they discussed Islamic jihad.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/russi...
After an initial investigation by F.B.I. agents in Boston, the Russians rebuffed several requests for additional information that they had about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The new inspector general’s report found that it was only after the bombing occurred last April that the Russians shared with the F.B.I. the additional intelligence, including information from a telephone conversation the Russian authorities had intercepted between Mr. Tsarnaev and his mother in which they discussed Islamic jihad.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/russi...
Yes Jen, back when this happened, our president made a phone call to Putin and Putin admited he had lied on the FBI and CIA when he said they refused to help. They could not help becaue they were not given the proper information requires to do any of the follows-ups Putin had asked of them because putin would not provide any of this to them, and the president let it go.(C&E)