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June 3, 2013

U.S. Lawmakers Urge More Cooperation With Russia in Wake of Boston Attack 
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A bipartisan congressional delegation has wrapped up a visit to Russia
where they probed the circumstances leading up to the Boston Marathon
attacks. The trip was held amidst scrutiny of the FBI following news
Russia warned U.S. law enforcement about one of the two bombing
suspects. Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California said the trip
unearthed no evidence of an intelligence mishap, only the need for
closer U.S.-Russian cooperation.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: "Do we believe that the Boston marathon massacre
could have been thwarted. And the answer is there is nothing specific
that could've been done that we can point to that, had it been done
differently, would have prevented this. But we can say that had we had a
much higher level of cooperation all along, so that the whole situation
would have been different. I believe that would have been one of the
type of things we could have thwarted by higher level of cooperation
between our two countries."

 

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