(OT) Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Caught, Feds to Go Without Miranda Rights for Now

From ABC News (4/19/2013; part):

Now that authorities have captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old believed to be the second suspect in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, federal law enforcement officials are invoking the public safety exception regarding his Miranda rights, a senior Justice Department official told ABC News.

The exception, according to the FBI‘s website, “permits law enforcement to engage in a limited and focused unwarned interrogation and allows the government to introduce the statement as direct evidence.”

The ABC News link goes to a page with a obnoxious video autostart. Don't be complaining to me.

The ABC news tells us to expect the suspect to be interrogated by "High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG)":

The group, set up in 2009, is made up of agents from the FBI, CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. They have been on standby waiting for the moment the suspect was taken in."

The winner looks like the police and American flag. See Boston Globe's photos.

Boston Globe also reports that Dunkin Donut Shops in Boston remained open during the lockdown at the request of the police, but not Starbucks.

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Bostom Marathon Bombing "Suspects" Photos Released by FBI

Photos from a Zero Hedge post (4/18/2013):

2 suspects in the same shot:

Somewhat clearer photo of the 2nd suspect with a white cap:

So they were wearing black jackets and had backpacks, walking in generally the same direction at several steps apart. (Like many others?)

There seem to be several other people captured by videos or photos who also wear black jackets and heavy backpacks, but FBI says "other photos will not be deemed credible", as Infowars reports:

Photos from Infowars, men with big backpacks, talking to someone:

and the peculiar logo mark on their hats:

The government denies there was any training operation at the Boston Marathon.

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Update on Boston Marathon Bombing: Experts Speculate It Was a "Domestic Terrorists" Job

The Saudi national who was reported as "suspect" in the initial reporting is in fact a "witness", says Washington Post.

In the place of a foreign terrorist, therefore, we now have a possibility of the bombing carried out by "domestic terrorists", as in Boston Globe. The reasons? One, the explosive devices were too crude to be the work of Al Qaeda; two, Boston Marathon was accessible to everyone.

Definition of domestic extremists under the current administration is not what you may think.

And this from Local15TV.com (4/16/2013; part, emphasis is mine):

UM Coach: Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Spotters on Roofs Before Explosions

University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines.
　
"They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise," Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15.

Stevenson said he saw law enforcement spotters on the roofs at the start of the race. He's been in plenty of marathons in Chicago, D.C., Chicago, London and other major metropolitan areas but has never seen that level of security before.
　
"Evidently, I don't believe they were just having a training exercise," Stevenson said. "I think they must have had some sort of threat or suspicion called in."

CNN reports a state government official said there were no credible threats before the race.

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(UPDATED) 2 Explosions at Boston Marathon, At Least 2 Dead, Dozen Injured, Saudi Suspect in Hospital

(UPDATE 4) Boston Globe: 3 killed, at least 140 injured.

(UPDATE 3) Obama's statement to the press (or reading the text off his teleprompters) just started. So far, there is no new information about the explosions that Obama can disclose. "We will get to the bottom of this." And now it's already over. He didn't take any question.

(UPDATE 2) Obama to make a statement to the press at 6:10PM EST.

(UPDATE) Cellphone service is shut down in Boston to prevent remote detonation of explosives.

Here's the link to visit the Boston Globe video that autostarts: http://bcove.me/qwi5k6ap

Feel free to complain to Boston Globe.

NY Post reports the suspect is Saudi, but the article's headline screams "12 dead, 50 more injured", which may or may not be true. But then, area hospitals are treating injured people, and the number looks easily surpassing 50.

There was also an explosion at the JFK Library. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis says this is an ongoing event, "“Stay home ... don’t congregate in large crowds."

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