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Sen. Graham Blames Information Sharing on Failure to Detect Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham sharply criticized law enforcement’s information-sharing system during the probe into the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, Business Insider reports. Graham said the system should have picked up on the suspicious activity of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Graham also urged federal agencies to “up our game.” “When one of these…
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U.S. Rep. King Blames Russia Over Communicating Radicalization of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Peter King, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Russia should have informed Washington D.C. about the radicalization of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects and his mother, the Associated Press reports. The New York Republican said better communication “definitely would have caused the investigation to go…
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FBI Explores “Persons of Interest” in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating “persons of interest” in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, the Washington Post reports. “There are persons of interest in the United States,” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, told ABC News. “We’re looking at phone calls before and after the bombing, this…
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Boston Marathon Suspects Stops Cooperating After Miranda Rights Read
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After 16 hours of interrogations in a hospital, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect stopped talking when a federal magistrate read him his miranda rights for the first time Monday, Newsday reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being questioned under a public-safety exception that does not require law enforcement to read suspects their miranda…
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New York Daily News: FBI Mishandled Boston Marathon Bombing Case
Opinion New York Daily News The FBI’s dereliction in failing to instantly notify Police Commissioner Ray Kelly that the Boston Marathon bombers planned to attack New York was irresponsible, unforgivable, terrifying and grounds for overhauling its anti-terror protocols. The bureau allowed well more than 48 hours to pass before sending word that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had…
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Boston Bombing Suspect Was on Two U.S. Terror-Watch Lists
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Suspected Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on two U.S. terror-watch database because of alleged ties to Islamic extremism, ABC News reports. The suspect, who was killed in a shootout, was added to two terrorism watch lists last year after Russia requested the FBI investigate Tsarnaev. Turns out, Russia provided…
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Washington Post Editorial: Has FBI Lost Focus on Real Bad Guys?
Editorial Board Washington Post Law Enforcement agencies can’t be expected to stop every terrorist attack, any more than they can prevent every mass shooting. If, as most investigators now appear to believe, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acted on their own with a bomb design downloaded from the Internet, their plot posed a steep challenge…
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FBI Searches Martial Arts Studio in Mississippi in Search of Ricin Evidence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents investigating who sent ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and other officials searched a martial arts studio in Mississippi on Wednesday after prosecutors dropped charges against the original suspect, CNN reports. Wearing hazardous materials suits, agents also searched the home of James Everett Dutschke on Tuesday after charges were dismissed against…