FBI: Right call to release marathon suspect photo
BOSTON (AP) — FBI officials say they debated whether to release photos that led to the capture of a suspect in last year's bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured hundreds of others.
Stephanie Douglas, executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Division, says in a "60 Minutes" interview airing Sunday that releasing images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) was the right thing to do even though an MIT police officer was killed soon after.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, killed officer Sean Collier while on the run.
Douglas says law enforcement "really had no choice" but to release the photos.
She says an argument against releasing the security camera images was that they could have provided an incentive for the still unidentified suspects to escape.
