FBI didn't tell Boston about Tsarnaev warning, says police chief

The FBI didn't tell Boston police that they'd been warned about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, despite FBI-Boston PD collaborations, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told Congress today.

By Alicia A. Caldwell,?Associated Press / May 9, 2013

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee at a hearing on "The Boston Bombings: A First Look," on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Former Sen. Joeseph Lieberman, I-Conn., sits at left, and photos of those who were killed at the Boston Marathon bombing are at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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The?FBI?did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston's police commissioner told Congress on Thursday.

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Yet Commissioner Ed Davis acknowledged that police might not have uncovered or disrupted the plot even if they had fully investigated the family of Tamerlan?Tsarnaev?based on those warnings. The?FBI?after a cursory investigation closed its assessment on?Tsarnaev, who died in a police shootout after the bombings. Boston police learned about the Russian security service warnings only later.

"That's very hard to say. We would certainly look at the information, we would certainly talk to the individual," Davis said. "From the information I've received, the?FBI?did that, and they closed the case out. I can't say that I would have come to a different conclusion based upon the information that was known at that particular time."

In Massachusetts, meanwhile,?Tsarnaev?was secretly buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester after a weeklong search for a community willing to take the body. Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said Thursday the body was no longer in that city and had been entombed, but he would not say where.

The congressional hearing was the first in a series to review the government's initial response to the attacks, ask what information authorities received about?Tsarnaev?and his brother before the bombings and consider whether everything was handled correctly.

Some lawmakers questioned whether Boston police could have more thoroughly investigated?Tsarnaev?after 2011, based on Russia's vague warnings then to the?FBI?and CIA or the discovery by the Homeland Security Department in 2012 that he was traveling to Russia for six months, and whether Justice Department rules intended to protect civil liberties constrained the?FBI's?own inquiry.

"Why didn't they involve the local law enforcers who could have stayed on the case and picked up signals from some of the students who interacted with them, from the people in the mosque," asked former Sen. Joe Lieberman, who also testified. "In this case, aggravatingly, you have two of our great homeland security agencies that didn't involve before the event the local and state authorities that could have helped us prevent the attack."

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