Patrick Administration Refuses To Release Tsarnaev Brothers' Records

The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind’s right to privacy.

Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.

On EBT card status or spending, state welfare spokesman Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment.

On unemployment compensation, labor department spokesman Kevin Franck refused to say whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev ever collected, saying it was “confidential and not a matter of public record.”

The Herald reported yesterday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter collected welfare until 2012 and that both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar received benefits through their parents “for a limited portion” of the time after they came to the U.S., which was around 2002.

It remains unclear how the accused bomber brothers financed their heartless attacks on the marathon.

“It’s certainly relevant information that should be made public,” U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch told the Herald. “There’s a national security interest No. 1. Secondly, there’s also a public interest in finding out whether these individuals were able to exploit the system and get benefits they weren’t entitled to.”

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The Prof said:

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Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records | Boston Herald

lynch is the (obviously) democrat congressman from boston

do you really think it's tamerlan tsarnaev's privacy that governor patrick is so preciously protecting?

either way, how did the brothers tsarnaev pay for all their doing?

if they're buying and building and experimenting and practicing with bombs, we might be just a tad too generous with our food stamps

how did mr tamerlan get to and from russia so many times?

he left his newlywed and infant daughter behind for 6 months on $12 an hour as a nurse's aid

in cambridge?

just how many terrorists on cia watch lists are running around this country---on welfare?

maybe, just maybe, if you find yourself landed on some warning watch list, you should lose your obamaphone

it just might have been the detonator used by dzokhar

(the fcc also refused to answer the herald's---and congressman lynch's---questions)

what did the russians see and hear that made them repeatedly tip off the fbi?

why didn't the fbi check out mr tamerlan's social postings?

did the tsarnaevs practice detonating bombs in advance and if so where?

the questions are many, real, important and unanswered

deval patrick playing ostrich is only curiouser

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