Russia Raised Concerns About Bombing Suspect ‘Multiple’ Times [View all]

[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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