Posted on 04/20/2013 6:15:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone
2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government Washington, D.C. April 19, 2013
FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691
The two individuals believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday have been positively identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now deceased, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now in custody. These individuals are brothers and residents of Massachusetts. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a legal permanent resident and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Charges have not yet been filed against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and he is presumed innocent.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was previously designated as Suspect 1, wearing a black hat. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, age 19, was designated as Suspect 2, wearing a white hat. Both were born in Kyrgyzstan.
Once the FBI learned the identities of the two brothers today, the FBI reviewed its records and determined that in early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.
In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.
That’s why I have no worries about FB or Tweater.
The mere fact of being a FReeper has me on “the list”
Perhaps somebody here who’s been so concerned about Miranda Rights for the surviving brother on other threads today, can explain to me what FBI could have done different in 2011?
Reads more like a cover story for, the Russians had us investigate and we found connections to terrorism, so we used those connections to turn them into informants. In other words, they found no terrorist connections.
Thanks NoLibZone.
Looks like the FBI missed something, didn’t they?
In this day and age of homegrown terrorism, you don’t close a file on someone who has been specifically targetted by a foreign intelligence agency as a possible or potential terrorist.
You keep the file active with periodic updates. That includes other members of his family.
This is not the FBI I used to work with.
It might have been the UK. Our NSA is prevented by law from spying on Americans so they spy on UKers instead and the UK's NSA spys on us. Computers record and archive all communication so they can be reviewed later if someone later trips an alert.
They said it WAS Russia. Chechen scum have been bombing Russians for years. They should wipe the entire population of Chechens off the map.
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