memeorandum: What's next: The interrogation of the Boston bombing suspect (Open Channel)

11:55 AM ET, April 20, 2013

Top Items:

Emily Bazelon / Slate:

Why Should I Care That No One's Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights? — When the law gets bent out of shape for him, it's easier to bend out of shape for the rest of us. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not hear his Miranda rights before the FBI questions him Friday night.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Corrente

Josh Gerstein / Reuters:

Next for Boston suspect: Five legal questions — With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken alive, the focus now turns to how the Obama administration is going to seek to bring the Boston Marathon bombing suspect to justice. — Lawyers have already made one potentially critical decision: he hasn't been read his Miranda rights, at least for now.

Discussion: Politico, Telegraph, BuzzFeed and CNN

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

What You Need To Know About Why The Boston Bombing Suspect Hasn't Been Read His Miranda Rights — Despite initial reports to the contrary, FBI agents did not read Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights immediately after he was taken into custody.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter? | Glenn Greenwald — The Obama DOJ says it intends to question the Boston bombing suspect “extensively” without first Mirandizing him — Shortly before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, was apprehended last night …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Telegraph and PoliticusUSA

CBS News:

FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago — The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him. — As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr …

Discussion: Infowars, Blazing Cat Fur, Mother Jones, Business Insider, Gawker, Hot Air, CBS Boston, CANNONFIRE, The Jawa Report, The Reaction, The PJ Tatler and Washington Post

Dee DeQuattro / WLNE-TV:

Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect — Neighbors say three have been arrested in New Bedford in connection with the Boston Bombing suspect. — Police apprehended suspects from the Hidden Brook Apartments on Carriage Drive in New Bedford.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and American Spectator

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:

Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat — The alleged Boston Marathon bomber who hid from authorities for more than 20 hours was captured tonight by police, sending cheers up through the Watertown neighborhood where he was found. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 …

Discussion: Sense of Events, Pat Dollard, Infowars, Deadspin, ABCNEWS, Crooks and Liars and Weasel Zippers

Open Channel:

What's next: The interrogation of the Boston bombing suspect — The FBI invokes the “public safety exception” with Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Chris Hayes breaks down what this means. — The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers …

Discussion: msnbc.com, Hot Air, U.S. News, Outside the Beltway and Business Insider

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Hospital Denies Involvement In Leak Of Grisly Post-Mortem Photo Of Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect — A grisly post-mortem photo of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers appears to have been taken early today after medical personnel turned the body over to law enforcement officials.

Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

International Business Times:

Feiz Mohammad: Radical Muslim Preacher Who Inspired Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev — By GARETH PLATT: Subscribe to Gareth's RSS feed — Feiz Mohammad, the radical preacher cited by dead Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a former boxer who blames women for being raped …

Discussion: National Review, New Republic, The Gateway Pundit and Atlas Shrugs

David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Shorter Lindsey Graham: Constitution? What Constitution?

Discussion: Politico and Towleroad News #gay

RT:
'They were set up, FBI followed them for years'- Tsarnaevs' mother to RT

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Guardian, Pat Dollard and BuzzFeed, more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Feds Make Miranda Rights Exception for Marathon Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, The Verge, ABCNEWS, CBS Boston and ThinkProgress

Jacob Gershman / Law Blog:
The ‘Public Safety’ Exception

Discussion: Lawfare

The Times of Israel:
Dead Boston bomber recently became ‘devout Muslim,’ his aunt says

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs

Ben Goad / The Hill:
‘Americans refuse to be terrorized,’ Obama says in weekly address

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, CNN and The Hill

Fox News:
‘We got him!’ Second marathon suspect in custody after tense standoff

Discussion: The Other McCain, Jihad Watch, neo-neocon, Scared Monkeys, Pat Dollard, Atlas Shrugs, CBS New York and Wall Street Journal

Julie Eich / CBS Boston:
CAPTURED - Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Caught In Watertown

Discussion: Deadspin, Pundit & Pundette, msnbc.com, Scared Monkeys, U.S. News, The Week, BBC, The Democratic Daily, The Lonely Conservative, The Raw Story and Associated Press

Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Boston bombing “is Exhibit A of why the homeland is the battlefield”

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Verge, The Hill and Hullabaloo

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Friend: Suspect ‘a normal pot head’

Discussion: Daily Mail, Restoring Liberty and The Daily Caller

Boston Globe: Relatives of Marathon bombing suspects worried that older brother was corrupting ‘sweet’ younger sibling

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

Where Obama Went Wrong In The Gun Control Fight — After a hard fought defeat, the White House faces some second-guessing. “They screwed up. This thing was lost in March.” — Via: The White House, Pete Souza, File / AP — WASHINGTON — In one of the toughest defeats …

Discussion: American Prospect, USA Today, Instapundit and Wall Street Journal

Glenn Thrush / Politico: Manchin questions speed of gun bill push

Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:

Cambridge wrestling coach recalls Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as ‘dedicated kid’ — Peter Payack, the assistant wrestling coach at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrestled on the team for three years and was captain for two years and a Greater Boston League all-star.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
City of Boston gave ‘subsidy’ to bombing suspects' radical mosque

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Erica Goode / New York Times:
Details of Tsarnaev Brothers' Lives Emerge

Discussion: Gawker, Sky Dancing, The Week, CNN, Business Insider, Quartz, Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online, Washington Post, The Hill, Yahoo! News, Wall Street Journal and FP Passport

mzv.cz:

Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack — As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a stark reminder of the fact that any of us could be a victim of senseless violence anywhere at any moment.

Discussion: New York Times, Deadspin, FP Passport, AMERICAblog, Balloon Juice and PoliticusUSA

Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:

'I Don't Bluff, I Make Promises': Beck Gives Gov't Until Monday to Come Clean About Boston Bombing Cover-Up — Near the end of today's radio broadcast, Glenn Beck declared that the cover-up of the Saudi link to the Boston Marathon bombing makes this the second most important thing (behind 9/11) …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, American Prospect, Crooks and Liars, The Moderate Voice, TheBlaze.com and CNN

Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Substituting Identity for Motivation

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Washington Monthly and Right Wing Watch

Peter Foster / Telegraph:

Boston bombs: Obama lulled America into false confidence over terror threat — The war on terror cannot be fought at an arm's length - and the attacks on Boston have brought uncertainty back to American streets, writes Peter Foster. — In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier …

Discussion: Pat Dollard