NY Times
by Michael S. Schmidt
August 1, 2013

The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack.

That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled a request from a Russian intelligence agency in 2011 to investigate whether one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been radicalized during his time in the United States.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/fbi...caucus&_r=3&;

Gee,next thing you know somebody is going to say the police can't protect individuals from attack!

Remember the phrase,"When you are only seconds away from losing your life,the police are only minutes away!"?