what some have criticized the obama administration for, the drone strikes have eliminated some of these guys and with that, extinguished them as a source of intelligence so this is a different operation, boots on the ground in this operation and brought this guy in. he s on a ship right now in the mediterranean we re told, which is something that the president had complained about in the past those tactics. exactly. several things he said there would never be american boots on the ground in libya, and i think that was a mistake ever to say that about anything anywhere, but at least he s corrected it through this operation. number two, remember that the fbi s hostage rescue team, one reason was to have law enforcement present to read al libi his miranda rights at some point thus preserving the criminal law prosecution option. now it is true apparently he s on a navy ship being interrogated for the past 15 years of his life, but nobody should believe that a couple of days of interrogat
were issued too soon. they asked attorney general eric holder for a comment and for the first time he responded to this issue. here s what he had to say. are you familiar with this report that russian authorities wi wiretapped one of the bombing suspects and that he was speaking with about his mother in jihad in 2011. can you talk about that? can you comment aon the suspect being mirandize and whether that was appropriate? that was consistent with the law. everything he s done appropriately and we got good leads. he taukdlked about the two d under law by the public law. then the miranda rights can be
clearing house list for all international terrorist identities. basically, it s a watch list. about half a million names in da database. now, the percent of the people on the list are u.s. citizens or legal permanent residents. congress established this list back in 2004. and less than 5% are u.s. citizens or legal, permanent residents. the administration is talking about its decision to read dzhokhar tsarnaev his miranda rights. pamela brown is live for us this morning in devon, massachusetts. she is standing outside the prison hospital where tsarnaev is being held. what can you tell us? poppy, good morning to you. a lot of focus whether rights
a threat. they asked the fbi to help. we have been asking all the authorities, the government, the internal police here and the only response so far has been silent. the russian president vladimir putin in his only public statement on this point said it was to his regret that russian authorities were not able to provide any information that was operational significance. but since the bombing. both the russian and u.s. governments are keen to stress that they are working very closely together. to what extent that cooperation was taking place back around that 2011 period when people were first concerned. poppy? phil black live for us in moscow, thank you. we re also getting a response from the obama administration on the controversial decision on whether to read tsarnaev his miranda rights. right outside the prison hospital where the suspect is
being held. pamela, good morning. what did the administration have to say? my colleague brianna keilar spoke at the white house correspondents dinner and he commented whether miranda rights were administered too soon to the suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. can you comment on whether the suspect being murandized and whether that was appropriate? one that the magistrate made and that was totally consistent with the laws that we have. we have a two-day period that we can question him and i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. so, by law, the public safety exception may only happen within 48 hours and then the initial appearance has to happen without unnecessary delay, that s according to the justice