Russia contacted US goverment ‘multiple’ times on concerns about alleged Boston Marathon bomber

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8. Minor flaw with your idea

which is that you believe that the various intelligence agencies WANT to cooperate with each other.

Everyone of the agencies is is extremely reluctant to play well with the others, they are all bureaucratic empires and the more responsibilities they get, the more funding they get and the bigger their empire gets. One of those agencies is not going to give up $50 million or more in funding and let another agency get the credit.

This isn't new, it's been going on for decades, probably all the way back to WWII