Now that the suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing have both been taken off the streets, authorities are focused on looking into a 2012 trip one of the alleged bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, took to Russia. Prior to that journey, the FBI was asked to investigate Tsarnaev by the Russian government. TPM talked to experts to find out what this Russian tip may tell us about Tsarnaev’s ties to extremist groups in his native land and whether the FBI missed out on a chance to catch a future terrorist.The FBI declined to comment on this story beyond a terse statement it released Friday.
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