Declining to offer specifics, the official said Tsarneav nonetheless provided “substantive” information that represents the beginning of understanding what led to their alleged bombing of Boston’s signature single-day athletic activity.
This comes as state and federal officials prepare to file charges against Tsarneav, the survivor of the massive manhunt on Friday that saw that led police from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. to the bedroom community of Watertown, Mass.
Meanwhile, two influential congressman are demanding answers as to why the Federal Bureau of Investigation and others in the intelligence community did not pursue Dzhokhar Tsarneav older brother, Tamerlin Tsarneav, 26, after the Russian government asked the Department of Justice to investigate him further in 2011 after the older brother made his last visit to the communist country, a six-month stay that observers believe helped influence his actions in Boston.
