g5000
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There is a lot of coulda/woulda/shoulda Monday morning armchair quarterbacking and second guessing going on about the Marathon bombers right now. So here are a few things you need to know before you make an ass of yourself.
1. The FBI looked into the older brother in 2011. They traced his digital footprints and checked him out, and they found zero terrorist connections or communications. They then closed their investigation. What you probably don't know is that Tamerlan traveled to Russia AFTER the book was closed on him.
2. The younger brother is a US citizen. Under a Reagan era Supreme Court ruling, his Mirandizing can be temporarily delayed if there is perceived to be an imminent threat to public safety. For example, did the bombers plant any other bombs? However, this temporary suspension of the reading of his rights has a very short fuse.
3. Any information garnered from the surviving bomber will be collected without beating him up, smacking him around, waterboarding, or through the use of any other kind of torture. Believe it or not, torture is not the only nor the optimum method for intelligence gathering.
4. One of the differences between Bush's NDAA and Obama's NDAA is that under Obama's NDAA, the younger bomber cannot be sent to Gitmo and tried by a military tribunal as he could have been under Bush's NDAA. Since he is a US citizen, he must be tried as a criminal in a US court under Obama's NDAA.
5. The second bomber was captured without militarized drones being deployed. He was not blown up. He was captured with the aid of aircraft using thermal cameras.
1. The FBI looked into the older brother in 2011. They traced his digital footprints and checked him out, and they found zero terrorist connections or communications. They then closed their investigation. What you probably don't know is that Tamerlan traveled to Russia AFTER the book was closed on him.
2. The younger brother is a US citizen. Under a Reagan era Supreme Court ruling, his Mirandizing can be temporarily delayed if there is perceived to be an imminent threat to public safety. For example, did the bombers plant any other bombs? However, this temporary suspension of the reading of his rights has a very short fuse.
3. Any information garnered from the surviving bomber will be collected without beating him up, smacking him around, waterboarding, or through the use of any other kind of torture. Believe it or not, torture is not the only nor the optimum method for intelligence gathering.
4. One of the differences between Bush's NDAA and Obama's NDAA is that under Obama's NDAA, the younger bomber cannot be sent to Gitmo and tried by a military tribunal as he could have been under Bush's NDAA. Since he is a US citizen, he must be tried as a criminal in a US court under Obama's NDAA.
5. The second bomber was captured without militarized drones being deployed. He was not blown up. He was captured with the aid of aircraft using thermal cameras.
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