Boston Bomb Crisis, FBI & White House first responses
1. Panteio University of Political and Social
Sciences
Department of Communication, Media and Culture
Advertising and Public Relations Lab
Crisis Management Workshop
Instructor: Mania Xenou, CEO Reliant
Communications
Head of Advertising & PR Lab, Assistant Professor
Betty Tsakarestou (@tsakarestou)
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23. • FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Rick DesLauriers
said it is a criminal investigation with the
potential to be a terrorist investigation. The
FBI said in a statement late Monday it was too
early to establish the cause or motivation for
the explosions, which happened moments
apart within about 100 meters of each other
near the finish line.
• The head of the FBI’s Boston Joint Terrorism
Task Force, which will lead the investigation,
also urged residents to be on “a heightened
state of vigilance,” and to call an FBI tip line
with any information about the incident.
24. • Police said no suspects are in custody, and
authorities in Washington said no one
immediately stepped forward to claim
responsibility for the attack.
• We will turn every rock over to find the people
who are responsible for this," Davis
said."There's been a horrendous loss of life,"
he added. "At least three people have died in
this event. But the number of injuries and the
people injured is an unfolding issue right now.
We will not have hard figures on that until
[Tuesday] morning."
25. Davis made a point to dispute reports that a
suspect was in custody. "I want to stress one
thing: there is no suspect at Brigham and
Women's Hospital," he said. "There are people
that we are talking to, but there is no suspect
at Brigham and Women's hospital as has been
widely reported in the press. I'd like to fix that
right now."
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis
said there was "no specific intelligence"
warning of an attack, and authorities said
there was no immediate claim of
responsibility.
26. We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the
subject or subjects who are responsible for this
despicable crime -- and we will do everything we
can to bring them to justice," said Richard
DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the FBI's
Boston Division.
"Our mission is clear: to bring to justice those
responsible... The American public wants answers.
The citizens of the city of Boston and the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts want and
deserve answers."
