Explosions at Boston Marathon
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"...For now, the government is invoking the public safety exception, a designation that allows investigators to question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights, a Justice Department official told CNN on condition of anonymity.
In ordinary cases, a suspect is told by police he has the right to remain silent and he has the right to a lawyer.
But this is not an ordinary case, say U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
They urged that Tsarnaev be held as an "enemy combatant," a designation that allows a suspect to be questioned without a lawyer and without being informed of his Miranda rights.
"Now that the suspect is in custody, the last thing we should want is for him to remain silent. It is absolutely vital the suspect be questioned for intelligence gathering purposes," the senators said. "Under the law of war we can hold this suspect as a potential enemy combatant not entitled to Miranda warnings or the appointment of counsel."
- His actions should certainly be categorized as terrorism. And I do want him to talk.instrmntl
- we won't understand the scale of this until he does so they pulled the card that makes him talk nowprophetone
- i think that's fair given the circumstances this week, although many will see it as unconstitutionalprophetone
- which perhaps it is... well i'm sure we'll see plenty of arguing and opinions about it on CNN for the next whileprophetone
- yeah true/agree.instrmntl
- thats a brainwashing statement. There are no limits with those exceptions are subject to politics of the states will?yurimon
- this doesn't look good....pango