Cambridge, MA — One week after he and his brother allegedly set off explosive devices near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and three days after his dramatic apprehension in Watertown, Mass., Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged on Monday in federal court in Massachusetts with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death.The charges, and an accompanying affidavit written by Daniel Genck, an FBI special agent in Boston, represent the starting point of the government’s case against Tsarnaev. In many ways, Genck’s filing matches much of what news outlets including TPM have reported about the events of the past week. But the official filing also clarifies a few matters, and complicates a few others. And many questions remain.
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