of interviewing everyone in the family and classmates. it would have been helpful for the russians so say we are very suspicious of this mother. they normally wouldn t disclose every wiretap they re doing. thaw they certain hi don t cast any light on their mother. okay. tom in the previous conversation in the last hour, does this then reinforce what everyone has been saying here? you said there s been sharing of information by everyone. i was questioning you about where is the one agency where the buck stops? would it have been does this sort of reinforce what critics of the administration and of the handling of this bring the fbi, what they re saying about it, that hey, listen, somewhere someone dropped the ball clearly and we re not sure and agent sitcy it. most fingers are being pointed a @fbi. does this solidify what they re
kevin curtis. he told he said in that hearing on monday that he had been framed and he mentioned dutschke as a possible suspect. aday after that hearing all of the charges that had been filed against curtis were dismissed. curt curtis s name was cleared. he was released from jail. and the man alina is talking about, kevin curtis is on the phone with me right now. kevin, thank you so much for joining us. you re a free man. your name is clear right now. you re the one who pointed the fbi to james everett dutschke. why? do you think he mailed ricin to the white house? you know, i can t really say for a fact that he mailed it because obviously i haven t been following him and haven t had any correspondence in about a year and a half with him. i had a city i went to a city prosecutor in tupelo a couple of years ago and said this man is
interview tamerlan and did interview the mother and did, as a matter of fact, enter at least they names into a federal database. but this could have made a difference. no one is saying that it definitely would have, but it certainly seems to provide more information or would have given them more information than they had before. at this point we may never know. there s also no reason at this time for why the russians only now are providing this information to the fbi. but, perhaps in time we ll learn more about the timing of thiss as well. certainly russia and the united states have been cooperating since this happened, offering cooperation, the russiasians ha for whatever they can do to held. the investigation. and we know the fbi has been in russia asking questions of the parents of tamerlan and jo hard as well. susan candiotti getting that
communication in 2007 between the mother of the accused brotton marathon bombers and one who may have been one of her sons discussing jihad. the source described the conversation as vague. they turned it over to the fbi in the last few days. the source was not aware for a reason of the delay and did not offer an opinion of whether it would have given the fbi enough reason to justify a closer look at tamerlan tsarnaev. there s a little more information here but i want to get to our tom fun tes who has information on this and suz zan candiotti. let s go to tom. tom, what does this tell you of an intercept of a conversation here. where does this take this conversation now? well it just was received in the last couple of days that they intercepted the conversation. the shame is that, you know, in 2007 when the first letter came from the russians, the
breaks news on the boston bombing suspect. a u.s. official says russia had a wiretap that intercepted a communication between the boston bombing suspect s mother discussing jihad be someone who may have been one of ore sons. russians turned over the intercept of the conversation which the official described as vague just within the last few days. i want you to look at that banner. it says one team. these are the boys from the dorchester massachusetts baseball league with 8 years matter tin played. he was killed in the bombings. today was opening day for the little leagues. they put on this parade. the fbi has a man in custody today they believe he s involved in the mailing of poison, poison filled letters to the president and other officials. james dutschke is charged with possessing and using the biological toxin ricin.