Authorities have used a public safety exception to delay reading Boston
Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his "Miranda" rights to remain silent
and to have an attorney present, a move that has sparked controversy.
The Obama administration has been criticized in the past for rolling
back Miranda rights after unilaterally expanding the public safety
exception in 2010. A group of Republican lawmakers have also called for
Tsarnaev to be held as an "enemy combatant," but the Obama
administration has signaled its intention to try him in civilian court.
Constitutional lawyer and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald joins us to
discuss the legal issues surrounding the case. "It’s sort of odd that
the debate is Lindsey Graham’s extremist theory [to hold Tsarnaev as an
enemy combatant] or rushing to give President Obama credit for what
ought to be just reflexive — if you arrest a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil
of a crime before you imprison him, you actually charge him with a crime
and give him the right to a lawyer," Greenwald says. "The fact those
are the two extremes being debated I think is illustrative of where
we’ve come.”
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