VOA标准英语2013--Official: Federal Agencies Didn't Share Information Before Boston Bombings
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(五月)
Official: Federal Agencies Didn't Share Information Before Boston Bombings
The bombings spread panic among runners and their supporters. But first responders reacted quickly, saving many lives.
At this first Congressional hearing, Republican Representative Michael McCaul, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, said victims and their families deserve to know how the bombings happened and how security can be improved.
One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died after a shootout with police. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and has been charged.
"While we don’t know if this attack was foreign-directed, we certainly know it was foreign-inspired. Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to the Chechen region, the radical 2 videos proclaiming the Caliphate that he posted when he returned, and the type of bombs he and his younger brother used, all signal an al Qaida-inspired terrorist attack," said McCaul.
McCaul said he fears intelligence failures allowed the bombers 3 to succeed. And he asked Boston Police Commissioner 4 Ed Davis if Federal agencies had shared warnings from Russia about Tamerlan Tsaranev with officials in Massachusetts.
"They tell me they received no word on that individual prior to the bombing," Davis said.
Republican Congressman 5 Peter King said the Obama administration needs to clearly state that the Boston attack was inspired by Islamic extremists.
"I have not heard one administration official, including the Attorney General and the President, use the term 'Islamist.' As Chairman McCaul said, how are we going to know the enemy if we do not identify the enemy?," King said.
Former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman, an advocate of tightened 6 security, said the Tsarnaev brothers were clearly inspired by Islamic extremism.
"Osama bin 1 Laden 7 is dead, and the remaining leadership of al-Qaida is on the run. But the ideology 8 of violent Islamic extremism is rapidly spreading," he said.
Some Democratic lawmakers cautioned that that the investigations 9 are ongoing 10 and that the Boston bombings should not be politicized. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas.
"This is not a place to raise a partisan 11 divide between Congress and the administration. This is a place to stand against this never happening again," she said.
Several lawmakers from both parties agreed that the Boston tragedy should unite Americans to prevent attacks in the future.
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
- The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
- The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
- His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。
- He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
- Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
- The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
- The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
- The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。