intelligence failures. what s your view of what actually has happened here? you know, with every criticism that s made after the incident, after the president has praised the behavior of law enforcement, it doesn t mean that we don t have oversight. that s not to say that there was something that they should have done that they did not do, but it is to say that they have to learn from whatever they didn t do that they wish they had done. i m thinking specifically of tamerlan tsarnaev s trip to t dagestan for six months last year having already triggered concerns and the russian authorities informing the american authorities about this individual being potentially becoming radicalized many some way. was that not an intelligence failure? it sounds to me like a perfect inquiry that should have been followed up. the fact that people are critical that the russians did not give us sufficient
obviously not very funny at the moment. but that was the license plate or the vanity plate that he had. he comes from kazakhstan. we don t know a lot more about his family, where the wealth comes from, where he got the money to buy bmws. but i think that s a trail a lot of people are going to want to be pursuing. right. and we can see a trail of reporters following the fbi special agent rick delor yay. let s bring in nicolas burns. professor at harvard and columnist with the global post. good afternoon, ambassador. good afternoon. you know, sir, that kazakhstan is 70% muslim. that s a nation that has a population that is 70% islamic. and we know these young men visited dagestan and traced their origins back to chechnya.
investigation. i don t want to indicate i know something or don t know have been questions about what happened to him, but i can t go any further than that. what about this so-called misha, this armenian who converted to islam and some of the family members of the suspect say he brain-washed tamerlan into becoming a radical. what can you tell us about misha? again, lf i have to my understanding is they do know who he is. they are talking to him. i can t go beyond that as to whether or not he did have this svengag@li-like influence over him like the family members are complaining about or if he was just an associate who spoke with him. that s all part of now. as you know the russians say they intercepted a phone conversation between the mother in dagestan and presumably one of the sons in the united states in which they suppose, according to these reports, of jihad jihad. what can you tell us about this? there s no doubt that there
into a possible link between tamerlan tsarnaev and a canadian boxer w violent death back in russia. let s go to nick robertson. he s in dagestan with more on this part owhat are you learning over there, nick? reporter: wolf we understand the fbi is looking into any connection between this whose parents were his mother not far from this region here his father also from russia. he d come back here. he had joined with rebel forces here died according to government officials, in a firefight last july the 14th of july just a couple of days before tsarnaev left russia and went back to the united states. people in that village still sensitive. particularly sensitive at the moment because of tsarnaev being in the headlines. many of the families of people
in what she has to say and what she knows. there was one box, at least one box, taken out of that house, her parents house, in rhode island that said dna evidence, if you will. do you know what that was all about? again, no. as far as that particular no i do know the fbi would certainly be checking the dna toetteto ette the extent they can anyone involved with these brothers in any way, to see if there s any link to the explosives or weapons. part of any investigation.ormal part of any investigation, certainly one as intense and vital as this one. do you know anything about this canadian boxer erer apparently as tamerlan tsarnaev who was a boxer himself? he returned dagestan. do you know anything about this canadian boxer? i think i only know what you do wolf. i d rather leave it at that. this is a very very sensitive