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Lawmakers cite terrorism in deadly Boston Marathon explosions

MARACANAÚ, 18 DE ABRIL DE 2013

Lawmakers cite terrorism in deadly Boston Marathon explosions

WASHINGTON — With little official information to guide them, members of Congress said Monday there was scant or no doubt that the deadly Boston Marathon explosions were acts of terrorism and vowed to bring anyone responsible to justice.
“We just don’t know whether it’s foreign or domestic,” said Rep. Michael McCall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
“My understanding is that it’s a terrorist incident,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein told reporters, saying she had been in contact with U.S. intelligence agencies. Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said intelligence officials reported no advance warning that “there was an attack on the way.”
Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the senior Republican on the panel, issued a written statement that said, “As the evidence mounts that this was a terrorist attack, our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must do whatever is necessary to find and interrogate those responsible so we can prevent similar attacks.”
The remarks stood in contrast to President Barack Obama’s own brief statement at the White House, where he made no mention of terrorists or terrorism as a possible cause of the bombings.
Two other members of the intelligence panel, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, said “initial news reports that multiple improvised explosive devices may have been involved at this high profile national event bear the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.”
McCall spoke with reporters in the House, and said he had talked with federal and state officials in the hours since the attack that he said “had all the hallmarks of terrorism.”
Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees said