Pete Williams, MSNBC: both men came from overseas, not Americans

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

...been here just 1 year. Military backgrounds.

Doesn't sound like one of them is Sunil.

Reporters are just a joke!!!

[elleng]

1. Heard that.These reporters are not a joke,

very serious and working hard, nbc anyway. Don't know about 'reporters' re: Sunil.

[octoberlib]

3. Supposedly those names were gotten off the police scanner

I don't think it's him. Williams said the suspects have just been here for a year. Who knows?

[davidpdx]

18. Yeah my sister in California is listening to the scanner

and telling me stuff via Facebook quicker than I'm getting it on CNN.

As someone noted in another thread:

#lagtime

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

6. Did you just get here? The reporting is horrible. Yes, I've said many, many times...

MSNBC is being very careful.

[elleng]

9. Been here all night,

watching and listening to local nbc news station live stream, and following carefully, never watching cnn.
NBC/MSNBC being very careful.

[gateley]

11. MSNBC is where they said it's believed they may have been here

less than a year.

[ChangeUp106]

2. Oh boy

If that's true, not good news. And not just because of the whole fucking white or Muslim thing. Now we've got a potential issue with another country on our hands

[aristocles]

10. Especially if they are active military. nt

[Zax2me]

27. Not a country - a religion.

These were Muslim terrorists.
doesn't matter where they came from.

[MFM008]

4. agreed

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. Apparently they don't have a police scanner.

Seems like that would be reporting 101.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

26. Most police comms are encrypted these days

[ChangeUp106]

7. Remember

MSNBC and specifically Pete Williams have been the only ones correct this entire week

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. Yeah, I'm following their coverage. Excellent

It's like they are reporting from a parallel universe, or vice versa.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Pete Williams has been talking out his ass all night....

There have been times when he's been asked where he's getting his info and he says it just makes sense.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

14. Not with respect to OP...

...yeah, he did a 1+1+1 = 3 to link the bombers to Watertown, but he's careful, otherwise.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Normally he is. I'm willing to wait for the FBI. I'm picky that way.

[cali]

13. I'm totally confused now. sheesh. fucking media

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Or not

named on Boston police radio as Sunil Tripathi and Mike Mulugeta; Mulugeta (the dead suspect) had a Massachusetts ID card on his person. Mulugeta is an Ethiopian name; a quick Google search reveals one Mulugeta in the Boston area who may be a parent (and is the right age to be). Sunil Tripathi is from Pennsylvania. I'd have to be seriously questioning the whole "came from overseas" thing, based on what we know at this point.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

17. Pete Williams: NOT SUNIL: FEDS want to make that clear

...they heard it was out there and they put the kibosh on it.

The men have been here about 1 year.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. They'd better tell the Boston PD then

[fishwax]

20. now they're saying at least a year, rather than just a year

"legal, permanent residents"

[Quantess]

21. Wow what a mess the reporting has been.

Who knows what to believe?

I'm a patient person who can wait until reliable info comes out. I would rather wait for good intel than have to constantly get a changing story based on hearsay and unsubstantiated gossip. This is frustrating.

[reformist2]

22. As if anyone here could do better reporting this. :rolleyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

23. The offer from Valdimir Putin to help has me wondering if these guys are Chechen. n/t

[6000eliot]

24. CBS is saying they are Chechen.

According to AP.

[Ganja Ninja]

25. Wow! n/t

[bushisanidiot]

28. Just saw an interview of a young woman who said she had gone to charter school with suspect #2

and then high school. so they have definitely been here more than a year.

[Tom Rinaldo]

29. I know there are other big problems with the reporting but...

If they have not become citizens they are "not Americans". Of course there are many millions of Americans who originally came from overseas. From what I've seen these brothers were legal residents. Maybe one of them could be a citizen now, I'm not sure.