(Times of Israel) U.S. authorities failed to detain Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who would later become one of the two Boston Marathon bombers, when he entered the country in 2012, because of a spelling mistake in a security database, a Congressional report has found.
According to the report, which was prepared by the House Homeland Security Committee, the FBI and the CIA had been warned of Tsarnaev’s extremist views by Russian authorities in 2011. After an investigation and a personal interview, the CIA concluded that Tsarnaev had no links to terrorism. Nevertheless, the agency entered Tsarnaev’s name, in its correct spelling, into a Customs and Border Protection database, NBC reported Wednesday.
