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The FBI and CIA received the warnings but did nothing, because Tamerlan Tsarnaev's activities had to do with Islamic jihad, and Obama’s FBI and CIA are forbidden to study Islamic jihad. The hapless agents probably had no clue as to how to understand what they were receiving from the Russians. This is because the Obama Administration in 2011, under pressure from Leftist pseudo-journalists and Islamic supremacist groups, mandated the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of the truth about Islam and jihad.

Keystone Kops Alert: "Rep. Bill Keating: Russia insists U.S. could have averted Boston bombings," by Cheryl K. Chumley for The Washington Times, May 31 (thanks to Lookmann):

Russian intelligence gave enough advance information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been averted, one Massachusetts lawmaker suggested on Thursday.

Democratic Rep. William Keating hinted at the claim from Moscow, on the heels of several meetings with senior Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, intelligence officials, The Boston Globe reported.

Specifically, FSB agents told Mr. Keating that they had disclosed to Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency officials of Tsarnaev’s plan to join with an Islamist uprising in Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, way back in 2011.

Had CIA and FBI agents acted on that intelligence, then the April 15 Boston terror attacks may not have occurred, FSB officials said to Mr. Keating, The Boston Globe reported.

Mr. Keating said Russian intelligence agents provided him with detailed information that proved beyond a doubt that Tsarnaev “had plans to join the insurgency,” the Globe reported....

Good. It is refreshing to see this kind of thing being done even in this Age of Obama. But who is leaking this information, and for what purpose? "U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say," by Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Julie Tate for the Washington Post, June 19 (thanks to Benedict):

The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.

The massive piece of malware secretly mapped and monitored Iran’s computer networks, sending back a steady stream of intelligence to prepare for a cyber­warfare campaign, according to the officials.

The effort, involving the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military, has included the use of destructive software such as the Stuxnet virus to cause malfunctions in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment equipment.

The emerging details about Flame provide new clues to what is thought to be the first sustained campaign of cyber-sabotage against an adversary of the United States.

“This is about preparing the battlefield for another type of covert action,” said one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official, who added that Flame and Stuxnet were elements of a broader assault that continues today. “Cyber-collection against the Iranian program is way further down the road than this.”

Flame came to light last month after Iran detected a series of cyberattacks on its oil industry. The disruption was directed by Israel in a unilateral operation that apparently caught its American partners off guard, according to several U.S. and Western officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

There has been speculation that Washington had a role in developing Flame, but the collaboration on the virus between the United States and Israel has not been previously confirmed. Commercial security researchers reported last week that Flame contained some of the same code as Stuxnet. Experts described the overlap as DNA-like evidence that the two sets of malware were parallel projects run by the same entity....

Watch for Hamas-linked CAIR to haul out its "entrapment" playbook and hit the ground running. "CIA unraveled bomb plot from within," by Greg Miller for the Washington Post, May 8 (thanks to all who sent this in):

The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double-agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials.

The Saudi service played a particularly important role in penetrating al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and recovering the explosive device, according to officials who described an elaborate espionage operation in which the CIA tracked the bomb’s movements for weeks and then killed suspected plotters in a drone strike after the device was seized.

Senior U.S. officials continued to withhold certain details, including the location and status of the individual — described by officials as a Saudi informant — who penetrated al-Qaeda posing as a willing suicide bomber then turned over the device to authorities after leaving Yemen....