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US: Russia Didn't Share Crucial Info on Tsarnaev

Intercepted text messages might have prompted bigger investigation

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal has the latest in the blame game going on about what the FBI did or didn't do in regard to Tamerlan Tsarnaev: It quotes US officials as criticizing Russia for failing to hand over text messages it intercepted between Tsarnaev's mother and a relative...

FBI Pushes for Easier Online Snooping

White House expected to back surveillance expansion

(Newser) - In a shift expected to spark a major debate on Internet freedom, the White House is leaning toward granting the FBI's wish to make it easier to eavesdrop on online communications, insiders tell the New York Times . The FBI, which argues that advances in technology are causing its ability...

Child in Cleveland Home Is Captive's Daughter: Cops

Press conference also reveals suspect once left child on a bus

(Newser) - Cleveland officials held a press conference today about the case of the three women found alive after a decade of apparent captivity , even as Mayor Frank Jackson admitted that there were "several unanswered questions: why were they taken, how were they taken, and how [did] they remain undetected in...

Feds, Banks Brace as Anonymous Vows Giant Hack Today

Hacker groups plot #OpUSA, say May 7 a 'day to remember'

(Newser) - Hackers have spent weeks warning of a giant attack on US government agencies and banks—and today is the day, they say. "Anonymous will make sure that this May 7th will be a day to remember," said the hacker group in a post, per the Huffington Post . The...

FBI Says It Busted Would-Be Terrorist in Raid

Guns, explosives found in Buford Rogers' home

(Newser) - The FBI believes it disrupted a terror attack that was still in its "planning stages" when it raided a mobile home in Minnesota, it announced today. Agents descended Friday on the abode of Buford Rogers, 24, and found guns, Molotov cocktails, and what looked like pipe bombs, the AP...

SEC Digging for a Mole on Wall Street

Issues subpoenas to get to the bottom of health care leaks

(Newser) - The SEC is trying to ferret out who leaked word of a coming government health care decision to stock traders, allowing them to get an unfair jump on the competition. The agency has issued subpoenas to a number of companies and individuals related to the case, the Washington Post reports....

Woman Makes Most-Wanted List 40 Years After Murder

Joanne Chesimard was convicted of 1973 killing of NJ state trooper

(Newser) - The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list now contains its first female: Joanne Chesimard. Her name was added to the list on the 40th anniversary of the murder of New Jersey state Trooper Werner Foerster, who was killed during a traffic stop, reports Fox News . Chesimard was convicted of the...

Feds Look to Make Facebook, Google Allow Wiretaps

Privacy advocates slam proposal

(Newser) - Feds are working on a proposal to push big online companies to comply with government wiretapping orders. Under the measure, which hasn't yet gained White House approval, the likes of Google and Facebook would be fined increasing amounts if they refused to submit to the orders, the Washington Post...

Is Dead 23-Year-Old a Boston Bombing Clue?

FBI investigates whether Tsarnaev met William Plotnikov

(Newser) - As the FBI investigates Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Russian contacts, one name in particular is drawing attention: that of William Plotnikov, a 23-year-old killed in a shootout with Russian counterterror forces in 2012. Within days of Plotnikov's July 14 death, Tsarnaev returned to the US in what Time terms "...

Russia Finally Reveals Why Tamerlan Worried Them

New information could have prompted further FBI investigation: AP

(Newser) - Russian officials have finally revealed what fueled mounting concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev : After they wiretapped his phone, they caught him talking about jihad with his mother in 2011. In another recorded conversation, mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva spoke to a person in southern Russia who is the subject of a separate FBI...

New Ricin Suspect Flees Through Woods

But authorities know how to contact Everett Dutschke: lawyer

(Newser) - Everett Dutschke, whose home was searched in connection with ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and others, has apparently gone into hiding—though his lawyer says the FBI knows how to get in touch with him. Talking to the media earlier this week, Dutschke said, "I don't know...

Dzhokhar Had No Guns During Boat Onslaught: Officials
Dzhokhar Had No Guns During Boat Onslaught
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Apr 25, 2013 2:34 AM CDT

Dzhokhar Had No Guns During Boat Onslaught

Officials talk to 'Washington Post'

(Newser) - As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hid on a boat in Watertown , law enforcement let bullets fly—but the suspect himself didn't have a gun, officials tell the Washington Post . During the half-hour before his capture, police were engulfed in "the fog of war," says one law-enforcement source; some cited...

Girl's Alleged Kidnapper Captured in Mexican Rehab

Tobias Summers charged in abduction, rape of Northridge 10-year-old

(Newser) - Authorities have captured a fugitive they believe kidnapped and raped a 10-year-old California girl who vanished from her bedroom in March and was found in a parking lot 10 hours later, bruised, barefoot, and disoriented, the FBI announced today; cops had called it an "unspeakably traumatic attack." Tobias...

Congress to Question FBI Over Missed Tamerlan Tip

He was cleared after 2011 tip; officials didn't realize he went back to Dagestan

(Newser) - The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to question FBI officials over their response to a Russian warning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, possibly as soon as today in what will be a closed hearing. The full Senate is likely to get a briefing on the matter this week, the BBC reports. Time ...

Nicaragua Nabs FBI Most-Wanted Fugitive

Child porn suspect Eric Toth detained by police

(Newser) - Police in Nicaragua have detained a US man who was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, authorities confirmed today. Former school teacher Eric Justin Toth was detained Saturday in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua's border with Honduras, said Nicaragua's...

Russia Tipped FBI to Dead Suspect in 2011

Agents interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev on tip he was a 'radical Islamist'

(Newser) - Law enforcement officials have confirmed that it was Russia that told the FBI to investigate the slain Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, the AP reports. The FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, following up on the tip that he was a "follower of radical Islam," but didn't deem...

Bomb Cited in Massachusetts Standoff After MIT Cop Killed

Two men with backpacks battle police; one tackled: report

(Newser) - Police tonight battled two men armed with guns and explosives outside Boston, just hours after an MIT police officer was shot and killed in Cambridge. A witness cited "constant gunfire" during the Watertown standoff with dozens of cops; amid the shooting, the men threw a large bomb toward police...

FBI Releases Photos, Video of 2 Suspects

Agency wants public's help finding them in connection with marathon bombings

(Newser) - The FBI has released photos and video of two men it has identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and wants the public's help in finding them, reports AP . Surveillance footage captured the men walking together near the finish line. Both are wearing baseball caps and both have...

FBI Sifts Through Thousands of Boston Tips

Picture of bomb suspect—or suspects— slowly emerging

(Newser) - The FBI has urged the public to help as its hunt for the perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing enters a third day. An appeal for information has already yielded more than 2,000 tips and the FBI—which has released photos and details of the bombs that killed three...

Investigators Have 'Active Leads' in Bomber Hunt

An in-depth look at the Boston investigation

(Newser) - Within minutes of the explosions at the Boston Marathon yesterday, authorities were already mobilizing their investigation. Evidence teams with Boston's Joint Terrorism Task Force moved to secure the bomb site, looking for timing mechanism springs, chemical residues, and other potential evidence, Time reports. FBI and CIA specialists, meanwhile, began...

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