Missed email, multiple spellings: How Tsarnaev's travel got lost in the system
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 17:06
in Mathematics & Economics
A Homeland Security officer assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston was alerted by email that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was traveling to Russia in January 2012, according to a U.S. counterterrorism official and a congressional investigator briefed on the investigation.But the email — sent because Tsarnaev's name was on a Homeland Security watch-listing database — generated no further sc...