FBI says could not have stopped Boston attack

August 03, 2013 00:23

The FBI today said it could not have done more to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings despite having been alerted to one of the suspects two years earlier.

"We came to that consensus at this point that there's nothing more we could have done under the existing guidelines, under the existing laws that govern our activities," an official from the federal law enforcement agency told AFP.

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