It appears The FBI had failed to follow up on yet another Red Flag on the Boston Bombers

Russian officials' warnings to the FBI and CIA about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Islamic radicalization included a prediction that he would change his name, a Massachusetts lawmaker said Wednesday — but the alert apparently failed to raise alarms when Tsarnaev formally sought the name ''Muaz,'' an early Islamic scholar. 

Tsarnaev tried to make the change as part of a federal citizenship application eight months before the Boston Marathon bombing.

The disclosure of the Russians' specific warning about the name change raises additional questions about whether federal agencies missed another signal that the elder Tsarnaev brother was veering toward radical Islam after a six-month trip in 2012 to the restive Russian province of Dagestan. 

''That would have been one more red flag,'' said U.S. Rep. William R. Keating, a Bourne Democrat, who was briefed by Russian intelligence officials on a congressional trip to Moscow. ''It would have been one more thing we were warned about that was happening.''

Tsarnaev tried to change his name as part of a U.S. citizenship application he filed in August 2012 with Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, a US official confirmed on Wednesday. 

The disclosure was made as the federal government continues to examine potential intelligence failures in the lead-up to the Marathon bombing. After Russian intelligence warned the FBI and the CIA in 2011 about Tsarnaev's radicalization, the FBI investigated him in early 2011 and determined he was not a threat. His name was placed on government computer watch lists for potential terror suspects, but subsequent opportunities to track his travel to Russia in 2012 and interview him about his growing belief in radical Islam were missed.

The New York Times reported Wednesday night that the Obama administration's main intelligence report on the Marathon bombing largely exonerated the FBI and said Russian authorities did not share all they knew about Tsarnaev in the two years before the bombing. The Times cited unnamed officials who had read the intelligence report.

The report — commissioned by the president's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, and conducted by the inspectors general for several intelligence agencies — appears to emphasize claims that the FBI has been making over the past year, that the bureau asked Russian intelligence agencies for more information but never got a response.

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