Obama Administration Considering Releasing Boston Bombers' College Transcripts. Wait, What?

The Boston Herald reports that the Obama administration is considering a move that, if the Boston bombers were Republicans, it would have made long ago.

The Obama administration will decide “in the coming days” whether taxpayers have a right to know if they helped fund the UMass education of four suspects linked to the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, the Herald has learned.

The University of Mass­achusetts Dartmouth — which has stonewalled 
requests for the financial aid records of terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and three students accused of covering up for him — requested an “exception” to federal law from the U.S. Department of Education on Friday.

“We are reviewing the letter and expect to have a 
reply in the coming days,” U.S. Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw told the Herald.

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Obama won his US Senate seat in 2004 after the sealed divorce records of Jack Ryan, the Republican who was the front-runner at the time, mysteriously turned up in time to knock him out of the race. That victory paved the way for Obama to become a backbencher in the Senate, and then win the presidency four years later.

Obama’s own college transcripts remain under seal and are likely never to be released.

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