FBI officials now admit they never forewarned Boston police about the Russian terror connections of the two men now accused of bombing the Boston Marathon. Instead, local and Massachusetts State Police were only told about brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev three and half days after the attack, law enforcement personnel testified before the House Homeland Security Committee earlier today.
Federal authorities now admit they opened an investigation into the dealings of Tamerlan as early as 2011 after learning he had traveled to North Caucasus in 2012, according to ABC News. A team of as many as three detectives and a sergeant from the Joint Terror Task Force were assigned to his detail.
Yet, in a statement, FBI officials insist the Boston Police Department had full access to its shared counter-terrorism management system and thus could have easily kept itself up to speed on the government’s probe of the two men.
"State and local law enforcement personnel, analysts and FBI personnel at Fusion Centers who have the appropriate security clearances are afforded the same unrestricted access as their FBI colleagues," the FBI said. Boston police also noted that not a single student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth called police after surveillance pictures of 19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a student at the school, were made public. Tamerlan was shot and killed in a police shootout following the explosion that killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Dzhokhar , meanwhile, was injured and later captured.
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