memeorandum: Fenway Park Patrolled By Military As Red Sox Game Begins (Jimmy Golen/Associated Press)

3:40 PM ET, April 20, 2013

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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: Firedoglake, emptywheel, Little Green Footballs, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Outside the Beltway, Corrente, The Volokh Conspiracy and Yahoo! News

CBS News:

Boston bomings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bled for hours from neck, leg wounds, “might not have lived” if not found … (CBS News) More details have emerged about the Friday night capture that brought the intensive manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects to an end.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Boston Globe, The Hill, Washington Post, Hot Air, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

Daily Mail:

'He didn't try to be a hero': Stepson of brave Boston boat-owner describes the moment his father found second bombing suspect crumpled and bloody in boat then calmly called 911 — Watertown resident David Henneberry discovered 19-year-old marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his boat at around 5:45 p.m. yesterday

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Pundit & Pundette, The Hill and ABCNEWS

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, Wonkette, Telegraph and PoliticusUSA

Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:

2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government … The two individuals believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday have been positively identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now deceased, and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, now in custody.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Jawa Report, CANNONFIRE, Guardian and The Times of Israel

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: BuzzFeed, Politico, Telegraph, No More Mister Nice Blog and CNN

Daily Mail:

‘Terrorista#1’: Bragging license plate on BMW belonging to friends of captured Boston bomber who were arrested along with another woman in dramatic raid — The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: ‘Terrorista #1’

Discussion: Power Line, Chicago Boyz, Riehl World News and The Gateway Pundit

Taylor Cormier / WBSM:

Three Connected to Bombing Suspect Questioned in New Bedford — Share on facebook! Share on twitter! — TSM — The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing seeped into New Bedford, Mass. on Friday evening with the questioning of several people who knew suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Discussion: Business Insider

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, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Debate Over Delaying of Miranda Warning — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's announcement that it would question the Boston Marathon bombing suspect for a period without first reading him the Miranda warning of his right to remain silent and have a lawyer present has revived …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller

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

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, Politico, The Hill, The Verge, Mother Jones and Right Turn

The Boston Globe:
Brothers in Marathon bombings took two paths into infamy

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Gawker and CNN

Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat

Discussion: Daily Mail, WBSM, Restoring Liberty, Sense of Events, Pat Dollard, ABCNEWS and Infowars

Dee DeQuattro / WLNE-TV:
Report: 3 arrested in New Bedford in connection to bombing suspect

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and American Spectator

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
What You Need To Know About Why The Boston Bombing Suspect Hasn't Been Read His Miranda Rights

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

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

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

International Business Times:
Feiz Mohammad: Radical Muslim Preacher Who Inspired Boston Marathon Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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

This Just In:
Boston manhunt: The day after — Police: Boston bombings …

Discussion: Businessweek, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Lead with Jake Tapper and Scared Monkeys

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

Discussion: The Hill, Politico and CNN

Telegraph:
Boston marathon bombs: Tamerlan Tsarnaev ‘interviewed by FBI in 2011’

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Mashable and Washington Post

CBS News:
FBI interviewed dead Boston bombing suspect years ago

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Infowars, TIME, Outside the Beltway, Sky Dancing, Business Insider, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Gawker, Mother Jones, Hot Air, CBS Boston, Blazing Cat Fur, The Reaction, The Jawa Report, New York Times, The Smoking Gun, CANNONFIRE and The PJ Tatler

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

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

Discussion: Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard and The Lead with Jake Tapper

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

Discussion: The Other McCain, neo-neocon, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, Guardian, Pat Dollard, Scared Monkeys, Associated Press, CBS Boston, CBS New York and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »

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

Bill Daley / Washington Post:
Heidi Heitkamp betrayed me on gun control

Discussion: Politico and The Hill

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

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: Politico, Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, New York Times, Deadspin, FP Passport and Balloon Juice

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives — It started with Bill Sparkman, the part-time Census worker who went missing and then was found dead, setting off an avalanche of mainstream media and left-blogosphere accusations that he was the victim of anti-government “right-wing” hate.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Jimmy Golen / Associated Press:

Fenway Park Patrolled By Military As Red Sox Game Begins — BOSTON (AP) — Bomb-sniffing dogs and military in camouflage fatigues joined the police patrolling Fenway Park on Saturday, when the Red Sox dressed in a specially designed uniform for their first home game since the Boston Marathon attacks …

Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:

City of Boston gave ‘subsidy’ to bombing suspects' radical mosque — Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended a Massachusetts mosque that made a controversial deal with a Boston city agency that allowed it to buy land at a lower-than-market price in exchange …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers