US congressional delegation in Russia to investigate Boston bombings intelligence
MOSCOW — A U.S. congressional delegation is spending a week in Russia meeting with high-level government and security officials to investigate whether more could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings.
Russia warned the United States in 2011 that bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a potential terrorist threat, but did not respond to U.S. requests for more information.
“We think there is some information that is vital for us to know that hasn’t been made public yet,” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the California Republican who is leading the delegation, said Wednesday after the congressmen laid a wreath at the site of a 2000 terrorist attack in Moscow.
The delegation includes Rep. Michele Bachmann, who announced early Wednesday she wouldn’t run for re-election in 2014. She was scheduled to arrive in Moscow late Wednesday, a day after the rest of the delegation.
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