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What did federal authorities know about thetwo brothers, especially the older one, who, as you know, traveled to Russialast year, and was on the radar Russian intelligence a year before that. We'vebreaking news tonight from Joe Johnson that's on chief political planner.

Joe, we knew the FBI was approached by theRussians in early 2011 to check out the older brother, Timberlan, saying he wasinterested in or flirting with extremism. Now you are here in the CIA was alsoapproached later that year by the Russians. What happened

That's true Anderson. We are told the CIAbasically got the same information the FBI got, but the CIA says it essentiallyput this guy's name up on its candidate for a terror database watch listsystem. CIA, we understand, also shared information with other agencies anddepartments, departments we understand to be the state department, HomelandSecurity, FBI International Counter-terrorism Center and gave out a bunch of,say, spellings of his name and two possible dates of birth, Anderson.

Glory, what's the quality of thatinformation coming into for the Russians?

Well, my intelligence sources say that thequality of the information was quite thin. They say, generally, the Russiansare very formal and more irregular with the information they share. They'renot, they don't expect them to share their sources with them. And then when theofficials and the investigators here went back to the Russians, I was told,quote, they do not get a case report back to us.

So, Joe, do we know, at this point, what pickthe Russians’ interest at the first place? I mean, if Timberlan is over here,how would the Russians know that he was interested in Radicalism Islambgy, howdid they?

We have a little bit on that, Anderson. Andit's pretty much based on the FBI's narrative. Russia, apparently, hadinformation that Sonia was planning to travel there and he was going to join upwith some unspecified underground groups, and they saw they made the requistbecause he was a follower radical Islam, strong believer, but he changeddrastically since 2010. What we don't know is why Russian officials didn't takehim away when he was there. Even he was in the region for six months.

And also Joe, just so I'm clear. As far aswe know, did any Russian officials actually talked to him while he was there,or followed him? And when he returned, as far as we know, no U.S. officialsfollowed up with him, correct?

That's right. I don't know about Russia.And I have asked a lot of those questions. I don't know what happened when hewas there. But when he came back here, as my understanding, that the FBIessentially had already checked him out. They didn't have anything on him atall. And so, they pretty much let him go as a free man.

So, Glory, you've got some information andthat's about the kinds of questions the investigators are now asking about thebrothers and their family members. What do you there...

Yes, they are asking a lot of questionsabout the family members. As you report the earlier, their parents now comingto this country. One question the investigators want to know about is silence.I mean, these parents got silence in United States. Then they returned toRussia from a place. They have been persecuted while their children were stillin their tins. So there's lots of question about why you would do that. Theywant to know about the wife. They have questions about what she's known. Didshe know anything? How do you hide something like this? From your stops, theywant to know where you got their income? They want to know about what theRussians knew, quite honestly. Then understand they should have been in a redflag for them. So there are, there are lots of issues they have left uncovered,and people on Capital Hill, as well as people within the intelligence agencieswant to know the answers to these questions.