memeorandum: Saudi National Questioned in Boston Attack was on Terror Watch List (Todd Starnes/Townhall.com)

2:45 PM ET, April 22, 2013

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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:

Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad — Let's hope the administration gets over its reluctance to recognize attacks on the U.S. for what they are. — If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy.

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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:

Lindsey Graham: Wrong name hid Russia trip — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that the FBI did not know that Tamerlan Tsarnaev — the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect — went on a six-month overseas trip in 2011 because his name was misspelled.

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New York Times:

Investigators Dig for Roots of Bomb Suspects' Radicalization — WASHINGTON — The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were armed with a small arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives when they first confronted the police early Friday, and were most likely planning more attacks, the authorities said Sunday.

Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

The Conservative Paranoid Mind — There's a common thread linking conservatives' positions on gun control, immigration, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: the constant need to stoke fear. By Michael Tomasky. — Liberals and civil libertarians shouldn't yet be saying that there's utterly …

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Associated Press:

Boston bombing suspect Tsarnaev charged with using WMD, faces death penalty — BOSTON — The surviving Boston bombing suspect is being charged with using weapons of mass destruction resulting in death and injury to others, a charge punishable by death or life in prison, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday in a statement.

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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:

Dead suspect broke angrily with Muslim speakers — Evidence mounts of radical turn — Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, angrily disrupted a January talk at a Cambridge mosque when a speaker compared the Prophet Mohammed and the peace activist …

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Fox News:

Boston bombing suspect charged, will not be treated as enemy combatant — The White House said Monday that the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will not be treated as an enemy combatant, in response to calls from Republican lawmakers to consider that option.

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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:

White House: Boston suspect will not be treated as combatant — The White House said Monday it will not treat the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attack as an enemy combatant. — White House press secretary Jay Carney said that Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would be tried as a terrorist in the federal court system.

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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
White House: Tsarnaev won't be treated as enemy combatant

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Associated Press:
Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged in hospital

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Boston Globe:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, bombing suspect, charged in a sealed complaint in federal court

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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Republican Lawmaker — And Former FBI Agent — Defends Bureau's Handling Of Boston Bombing

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U.S. News:
Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions

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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses

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Josh Gerstein / Politico: Marathon bombing suspects not registered to vote

Rand Paul:

Sen. Paul Issues Letter to Majority Leader Reid Regarding Consideration of Immigration Bill — In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings, focus should be on National Security — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today issued a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging …

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Top Opponent Of Immigration Reform Totally Loses It During Immigration Hearing — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tore into conservative critics who have sought to exploit the Boston bombings to delay immigration reform, eliciting a strong rebuke from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

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Talking Points Memo:
‘I Never Said That!’: Chuck Grassley And Chuck Schumer Argue Over Boston

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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rubio: Immigration bill should take Boston attack into account

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Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:

BECK BREAKS EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION ON SAUDI NATIONAL ONCE CONSIDERED A PERSON OF INTEREST IN BOSTON BOMBINGS — Editor's Note: We'll be discussing this story and all the day's news during our live BlazeCast at 12pm ET...including your questions, comments & live chat: — Background points:

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Todd Starnes / Townhall.com:

Saudi National Questioned in Boston Attack was on Terror Watch List — The Saudi national who was initially detained and then ruled out as a suspect in the Boston Marathon terrorist attack had been flagged on a terror watch list and was granted a student visa without being properly vetted, sources have told me.

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Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:
EXCLUSIVE: KEY CONGRESSMEN REQUEST CLASSIFIED BRIEFING ON SAUDI ‘PERSON OF INTEREST’ IN BOSTON BOMBING

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Manu Raju / Politico:

Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio on immigration — Still, he quickly added this critique: “If the objective is to pass a bill, you don't hold the positive areas of agreement hostage to areas of sharp disagreements.” — Cruz was one of the first senators to receive a briefing from Rubio …

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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE — SECRET EMAILS: CATO, NORQUIST, RUBIO USE BOSTON TERROR ATTACKS TO PUSH IMMIGRATION REFORM

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Manu Raju / Politico:
Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio on immigration

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Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Report: Bomb suspects' carjack victim spared because he wasn't American — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon's finish line told the man they carjacked on Thursday night that they only decided not to kill him because he “wasn't an American,” according to a report Monday.

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Jobless Trap — F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won't blame fear, per se. Instead, they'll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things.

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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:

A red state/blue state chasm — In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don't think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome. — Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than that.

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Senator Told Shooting Victim's Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them — Shortly before the a crucial Senate vote to expand background checks in gun transactions, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) sent a letter to the mother of a shooting victim claiming that he was “truly sorry” …

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