The FBI never told the Massachusetts State Police or the Boston police about possible Russian terror connections of the suspected Marathon bombers until it was too late according to ABC News.
Law officials were not notified until three and half days after the attacked according to law enforcement officials who testified before the House Homeland Security Committee this week.
"My fear is that the Boston bombers succeeded because our system failed," said committee chairman Rep. Mike McCaul according to ABC News.
Boston police commissioner Ed Davis said that his department was not notified before the bombing that the FBI had opened an investigation into Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Bombing massacre. Boston officials were also not told that Tsarnaev traveled to North Caucasus last year.
Davis said this sort of information would have been useful to know before the race, but isn't sure whether or not the knowledge would have stopped the bombings.
The FBI is claiming that the Boston police department had access to the shared counter-terrorism incident management system, and had representatives assigned to the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) squad that handled the 2011 Assessment of the now deceased bomb suspect.
"From the attack at Fort Hood to the tragedy at Benghazi, the Boston bombings are our most recent reminder that we must call terrorism really for what it is in order to confront it," McCaul said. "You cannot defeat an enemy you refuse to acknowledge."
Boston police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were responsible for setting off two bombs near the finish line at the Boston Marathon back on April 15, which killed three people and injured over 260 others.
Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout a few days after the attack, while Dzhokhar was injured and later captured while hiding in a boat.
Davis stated during the hearing that not one student from the University of Massachusetts alerted the police after surveillance pictures of Dzhokhar, who was attending the university at the time, was made public according to ABC News.
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