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On the recordJune 11, 2013
Of course, in Boston, if you are talking about the marathon case, what the FBI could have done was to pass on the information to the Boston authorities.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy discusses the FBI's failure to share critical information in the Boston marathon case.

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