sir. thank you. joining me here in the studio now, once again clark kent ervin, robert pape. clark, let me start with you. it would seem to me that there is no understating how important this 19-year-old suspect is right now in that hospital room. how valuable is he going to be to this investigation? well, that s right, craig, he s absolutely critical. we hope of course that he recovers and he s well enough to cooperate if he chooses to cooperate. as i was saying earlier, the history is that these suspects do tend to cooperate. he can explain his motivation. he can explain how he was radicalize d why he was radicalized, also with regard to his brother. more importantly he can tell us whether there are others involved in this plot, whether there are other explosive devices. again, there s no apparent reason to think that the answer to those questions is yes, but we need to find that out definitively and no one is in a
were focusing on muslims who were under occupation in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere. and their muslim background brought empathetic sympathy from them that then bled into anger and then obsession and then a willingness to kill for that perceived injustice. clark, i want to go back to the miranda rights. why do reading of the miranda rights? what would have been the harm and how unprecedented is this? right. well, as pete williams was explaining, there is this public safety exception to the general requirement that suspect s miranda rights be read for precisely the situation we find ourselves in. if there is concern that there might be a continuing threat to the public, further explosive devices, others connected to the plot, follow-on plots perhaps, then that gives the law enforcement authorities the right to question this suspect without advising him of his rights to have a lawyer. it doesn t last indefinitely, for a couple of days or so, but
start an investigation. we just heard on your show that his e-mail records were looked at. we examined all there was with his family, his connections. we found nothing. the key question is not what the fbi missed then, it s what they weren t told then and now we want to know. at this point, clark, based on what you ve heard, what you ve read, what can we make of the level of sophistication? well, i guess i d say a couple of things, craig. this wasn t the most sophisticated plot, it wasn t al qaeda central like, it wasn t like 9/11, needless to say, but these guys weren t bumplers. the fact that the attacks took place on an iconic event like the boston marathon, the fact that they had multiple explosives and the fact they didn t flee immediately, all this suggests there may have been additional attacks they were going to carry out. i think these guys were fairly