Russia Raised Concerns About Bombing Suspect ‘Multiple’ Times

[DonViejo]

IGOR BOBIC 10:47 AM EDT, WEDNESDAY APRIL 24, 2013

Russian officials raised concerns about Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev "multiple" times, including a year later after the FBI initially interviewed Tsarnaev in 2011, according to Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) who received an intelligence briefing with other senators on Tuesday.

More from the Boston Globe:

Senators said the briefing also revealed failures among federal agencies to share vital information about Tsarnaev, indicating, they said, that the US government still has not established a strong system to ``connect the dots’’ about would-be terrorists residing in America more than a decade after 9/11.

Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican and member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, praised law enforcement authorities for quickly producing videos of the suspects and putting a halt to their violent spree Thursday night and Friday.

“But I’m very concerned that there still seem to be serious problems with the sharing of information, including critical investigative information,’’ she said after emerging from the closed-door committee briefing. ``That is troubling to me, this many years after the attacks on our country in 2001, that we still seem to have stovepipes that prevent information from being shared effectively, not only among agencies but also with the same agency in one case.”

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Did I just step into a time machine?

And wasn't the Office of National Intel supposed to stop stove piping?

[treestar]

2. Residing in the US more than a decade after 911

would not include the bombers.

And is there proof of the multiple "raising of concerns" and what were the nature of them?

People work so hard to find someone else to blame. And here we have a live one. I can understand when the 19 hijackers were all dead there had to be someone else to blame, but here we actually have a defendant.

[FarCenter]

6. The proof of the multiple "raisings of concerns" would have been in the intelligence briefing

This is not a Russian statement -- the information that there wre multiple "raisings of concerns" is coming from one or more of the US security organizations. This is different that what we've heard from the FBI that there was only one request/response.

[Turborama]

7. No, the noise about multiple "raisings of concerns" is coming from a Repuke Senator

And it deserves to be treated with a great deal of caution.

[patrice]

3. Everyone in "our" economy fears for their jobs. Stovepipes are everywhere.

True story.

The only thing we fund without question or limit is WAR.

[liberalmuse]

4. Wow, that Patriot Act has really helped us fight terrorism.

I think we need to roll everything back to where we were post 9/11.

[spanone]

5. well, i thought bu$h & cheney set the system up correctly? guess not