The guilt of the Boston Marathon Bombers, Dzhokhar and Tamerian Tsarnaev was never in question.
CCTV cameras captured the brothers planting homemade bombs near the crowded finish line at the Boston Marathon. The subsequent explosions and twisted shrapnel claimed three lives and robbed 16 others of their limbs.
With Boston metro area on lockdown, the brothers proceeded to murder a police officer, kidnap a man, and engage in a fierce firefight with police, which cost Tamerian his life and eventually claimed the life of another officer.
But what if we could have avoided this carnage altogether?
While it’s unwise for our leaders to let their guard down around their Russian counterparts, evidence suggests U.S. authorities ignored warnings from the Russian government about the Tsarnaev brothers.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) sent a detailed letter with pertinent information about the Tsarnaevs (including their connections and contact information) to the FBI and CIA in March 2011.
That same year, more than 18 months before the bombings, Republican Senators Saxby Chambliss and Richard Burr separately asked the FBI and CIA to look carefully into Tamerian Tsarnaev, in particular. Back in Russia, the FSB secretly recorded phone conversations between Tamerian and his mother discussing jihad and sent these to FBI agents. Russia also offered our intelligence services warnings that the Tsarnaevs intended to train with Islamic terrorists abroad.
Apparently, an FBI investigation found no evidence to support those claims at that time.
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