Russians Withheld Information on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Finds
Source: NYTimes
BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, April 9, 2014 8:32 PM EDT
Russians Withheld Information on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Finds
The Russian government withheld from the F.B.I. significant information that it had about one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack, according to an inspector general’s review of how federal agencies could have thwarted the bombing.
After an initial investigation by F.B.I. agents in Boston, the Russians rebuffed several requests for additional information that they had about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The new inspector general’s report found that it was only after the bombing occurred last April that the Russians shared with the F.B.I. the additional intelligence, including information from a telephone conversation the Russian authorities had intercepted between Mr. Tsarnaev and his mother in which they discussed Islamic jihad.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/russia-withheld-details-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev-us-report-says.html?emc=edit_na_20140409
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In fact, the conflicting reports finally compelled me to do some Googling. Among the results were a few sites many will likely dismiss as "tin foil hat" conspiracy theorists but which I found fascinating for their attention to and documentation of so MANY contradictory details.
F'rinstance ... it wasn't until a month after the bombing that now-Former Assistant FBI Director John Miller publicly announced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had written a "confession" during the hours he spent hiding in a powerboat drydocked in its owner's back yard ... (in the dark) ...
During his statement on May 16th, Miller announced, "Tsarnaev had no paper, but he did have a pen," and with it, Miller claimed, the suspect had written a confession on the inside of the boat. (When questions subsequently arose as to what kind of pen could write on the boat's fiberglass structure, the pen became a "marker."
Though it seems a bit odd that a suspect would both hide for hours from police AND pen a confession (in the dark), to date authorities have released NO pictures or full text of what they claim Tsarnaev wrote.
http://thebostonmarathonbombings.weebly.com/dzhokhars-note-in-the-boat-a-not-so-water-tight-confession.html
Then there are the different and conflicting versions of MIT campus police officer Sean Collier's shooting:
http://thebostonmarathonbombings.weebly.com/collier-case-could-collapse-due-to-conflicting-evidence.html
But to me, the real head-scratcher is the guy who was supposedly carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers. Still known publicly only by his pseudonym ("Danny" , he's told different versions of his story, some of which are contradicted by physical evidence like recorded police scanner conversations.
http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/03/13/something-dead-wrong-investigating-mysterious-central-character-danny-part-2-2/
To be clear: I'm not claiming any of the above as "conclusive proof" of some dark government conspiracy -- people make mistakes and reports aren't always accurate.
It DOES, however, strike me as troubling that such a high-profile terrorism case seems so riddled with conflicting information.
That would involve NSA wiretaps and FISA warrants, all of which are spying and none of that is good. The NSA had no right to listen to Tamerlan's private conversations! 
