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Honorable George A O'Toole
By 04/05/2016

Boston Bombing Judge to Speak About Case Though Appeal Still Pending

The death penalty verdict in the high-profile case of the Boston Bombing, covered extensively by  WhoWhatWhy, is still under appeal — but that’s not stopping the jurist from commenting publicly on the matter.   On April 6, at Boston College, Judge George O’Toole will join a panel of Boston College law experts to discuss judicial […]

Boston Marathon Bombing 2013
By 03/01/2016

The Curious Timing of the Boston Bombing Documents Release

Journalists refer to a “news dump” when information is revealed at a time that makes it unlikely that much coverage will be devoted to it. That is why administrations often release potentially damaging information on Friday afternoons, for example. And that makes the timing of the latest information dump in the Boston Marathon bombing case […]

Jeb Bush
By 01/14/2016

Boston Globe Freaks Over Jeb’s Accidental Deep Politics

Here’s a slightly complex one with a very simple message: The Boston Globe just ran an item implicitly questioning the judgment of a Super PAC supporting Jeb Bush. The basis? The PAC ran an ad featuring Ben Swann, a newscaster who has doubts about the official Boston Marathon Bombing story. The Globe has no beef […]

By 09/28/2015

RussRant: Ben Carson Gets Boston Bombing Wrong

Should we be concerned that, after all this time, would-be presidents of the United States, like the majority of the media and the population at large, are still unaware of the full story behind the Marathon Bombing?

Boston Media Suddenly Unhinged Over Marathon Trial

Some media are all hopped up about the judge’s curious decision to deny them access to the jury from the Boston Marathon Bombing Trial, now that it is long over. Think that means those news organizations are finally showing some initiative and digging into all the holes in the case? Think again.

By 07/09/2015

Boston Bomber’s Backstory, Ghost Schools & The Surveillance State: July 9, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Marathon Bomber Appeals Conviction: Do His Lawyers Know Something We Don’t? By James Henry Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers continue the legal formalities necessary to build a case for appeal, despite an unequivocal admission by the defendant of his own guilt. Is there anything to be gleaned from an appeals trial about the […]

Robert S. Mueller
By 06/06/2015

Missing Evidence of Prior FBI Relationship with Boston Bomber

Almost universally overlooked congressional testimony from then-FBI director Robert Mueller directly contradicts a deliberately-propagated misconception: that the Boston Marathon bombers were unknown to the US government until the Russians issued a vague warning that was dismissed as inconsequential. This revelation calls into question the precise nature of the FBI’s relationship with the bombers—before they became bombers.