Lawmakers will question senior security officials this week about whether the FBI mishandled information on one of the Boston bombing suspects flagged as a possible Islamist radical by Russia two years ago.
Top investigators are to brief the full House today about the failure to spot the danger from Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the bombings.
Lawmakers want to know why the FBI discounted the older Tsarnaev brother as a possible threat after interviewing him in 2011. The following year, he flew to Russia and visited the southern regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, where Islamist militants are active.
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"We're going to have to sort it out," said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, which will be briefed on the case during a closed hearing today.
She declined further comment.
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