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*'''12 April.''' The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approves the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of Verizon customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge orders Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA). This directly contradicts Clapper’s March 12 testimony to Congress.

*'''12 April.''' The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approves the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of Verizon customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge orders Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA). This directly contradicts Clapper’s March 12 testimony to Congress.

*'''15 April.''' [[Boston Marathon bombing]].

*'''15 April.''' Boston Marathon bombing. Two Russian immigrants  were responsible for the bombing. Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] condemned the bombing as a "barbaric crime" and "stressed that the Russian Federation will be ready, if necessary, to assist in the U.S. authorities' investigation."<ref name="AutoLC-150" /> He urged closer cooperation of security services with Western partners.<ref name="AutoLC-151" /> Other Russian authorities and mass media blamed the U.S. authorities for negligence as they warned the US of the Tsarnaevs.<ref name="Russia-could">{{cite web|url=http://www.rg.ru/2013/04/26/mnenie-site.html |script-title = ru:Россия могла предотвратить теракт в Бостоне |trans-title=Russia could have prevented a terrorist attack in Boston|author=Shestakov, Yevgeny|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|date=April 26, 2013|accessdate= April 11, 2015|language=Russian}}</ref> Moreover Russian authorities and mass media since the Spring of 2014 blame USA for politically motivated false information about lack of response from Russian authorities after subsequent U.S. requests.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} As proof a letter from the Russian [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) was shown to the members of an official U.S. Congressional delegation to Moscow during their visit. This letter with information about Tsarnaev (including his biography details, connections and phone number) had been sent from FSB to FBI and CIA during March 2011.<ref name="Russia-blame-again">{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/boston_terror/20140410/1003329322.html |script-title = ru:Эксперт: обвинения США по делу Царнаева политически мотивированы|trans-title=Expert: U.S. blame around Tsarnaev case are politically motivated|author=Korotchenko, Igor|work=RIA Novosti |date=April 10, 2014|accessdate= April 11, 2015|language=Russian}}</ref>

 

*Sens. [[Saxby Chambliss]] and [[Richard Burr]] reported that Russian authorities had separately asked both the FBI (at least twice: during March and November 2011) and the CIA (September 2011) to look carefully into Tamerlan Tsarnaev and provide more information about him back to Russia.<ref name="BG-RUS">{{cite web|url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/23/russia-contacted-fbi-multiple-times-concerns-about-alleged-boston-marathon-bomber/ND0bhUdq1Tp1mRuC8xlb8N/story.html |title = Russia contacted US government ‘multiple’ times|author1=Bender, Bryan |author2= Bierman, Noah|work=The Boston Globe|date= April 23, 2013|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name="RT-RUS">{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/usa/fbi-boston-senate-hearing-263/ |title= Senate grills FBI over Boston bombings intel failures|work=RT|date=April 23, 2013|accessdate= April 11, 2015}}</ref> Russian [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB) secretly recorded phone conversations between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother (they vaguely and indirectly discussed [[jihad]]) and sent these to the FBI as evidence of possible extremist links within the family.<ref name="Boston-RUSS">{{cite web|url= http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-mother-wiretap-jihad-519/ |title=

Caught on Russian wiretap: Tsarnaev ‘vaguely discussed jihad’ with mother – US official|date=April 28, 2013|work=RT|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}</ref> However, while Russia offered US intelligence services warnings that Tsarnaev planned to link up with extremist groups abroad, an FBI investigation yielded no evidence to support those claims at the time.<ref>{{cite news|last=Radia|first=Kirit|title=Lawmakers Traveling to Russia to Investigate Boston Bombing|url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/lawmakers-traveling-to-russia-to-investigate-boston-bombing/|newspaper=ABC News|date=May 21, 2013 |accessdate= April 11, 2015}}</ref>

*'''17 April.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports that the House Oversight Committee sent letters to the three federal agencies—the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department—in response to new whistleblower revelations on the Benghazi attacks. The letters instruct how whistleblowers are to be able to share sensitive or classified information with their own attorneys, and ask for each agency's official description of the legal steps that process must follow. The letters also state that additional witnesses may be "compelled by subpoena to give testimony."

*'''17 April.''' CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson reports that the House Oversight Committee sent letters to the three federal agencies—the CIA, the Defense Department and the State Department—in response to new whistleblower revelations on the Benghazi attacks. The letters instruct how whistleblowers are to be able to share sensitive or classified information with their own attorneys, and ask for each agency's official description of the legal steps that process must follow. The letters also state that additional witnesses may be "compelled by subpoena to give testimony."