The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston
Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to
find any incriminating information about him.
As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI
interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if
he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage.
Both
Tsarnaev brothers were legal permanent residents of the U.S. There is
no evidence so far that either brother received any tactical training.
CBS
News correspondent John Miller reports it is likely Russia asked to
have the elder Tsarnaev vetted because of suspected ties to Chechen
extremists.
The FBI is likely to have run a background
check, running his name through all the relevant databases, including
those of other agencies, checking on his communications and all of his
overseas travel. Miller reports that culminated in a sit-down interview
where they probably asked him a lot of questions about his life, his
contacts, his surroundings. All of this was then written in a report and
sent it to the requesting government.
The guy was clean then. If it turns out later that more evidence is out there to the contrary, then we'll take a look at it then. But in 2011 this guy got paid a visit. What happened between then and now, I can't tell you.
Rampant speculation on the other hand, without the fact? Zero percent of that helping anyone.
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