information they have, the, their computers, their cell phones. there s a treasure trove of information. and key here is be able to get to it. so whether you want to call him an enemy combatant or you want to use this public safety exception, the key is, getting the information. to protect the american people, to learn whether others were involved, to learn more about how he got involved. bill: to that end, are you okay with him not being read his miranda rights? i am. at this point i think it is perfectly fine. i don t think it matters under what exception. you can always mirandize this individual but, the important thing is to get the information now. bill: peter king is hot on the trail of at least five cases that he appears to talk about quite often where the fbi knew of a known terrorist and did not take action before they tried to carry out an act here at home. now we re going to talk to
unmanned cargo flights to the international space station later this year. onward we go, huh? very interesting with ashcroft at the end there when he was talking about, you know, miranda rights, no mir rapped today rights. based on what we know right now, we believe to be an absolute pile of evidence that could go against this guy. martha: and having a lawyer and mirandizing him in some cases might make a lot of sense because the lawyer might lay out for the person here is what you re up against and talking might save your life which alberto gonzales mentioned the possibility of getting more information out of him. bill: 19 minutes before the hour. martha: we re getting new details now about a deadly avalanche that happened over the weekend. what police are saying about the victims and why they were in some of the worst conditions we ve seen in a half century!. bill: a big question right now on the boston bombing matter, how to classify the surviving suspect. the one analyst says the b
f.b.i. did and the groups in putting together the photo montage was incredible. i can see them out partying they were partying the night after they killed these people, so badly hurt so many people, they were out at a party. the next day they were working out and saw on television the image of their face and i would have loved to have seen what their face looked like when they saw that come out on television. brian: they sprung into action and wanted h us again. they were armed to the teeth and on the run and those cops mir raucously able to avoid them. but what do you think about the miranda rights? it s federal. you could look at it any way. but what would like seeing a lot of people saying we did something wrong. here we go again. i see it all the time. we did something wrong. we didn t read their rights. they weren t told of their rights. and now all of a sudden the it s called spotter for the lawyers, to delay something for
steve: was the boston bombing a crime or an act of war? those questions are stirring up a heated debate in washington about whether dzhokhar tsarnaev should be considered an enemy combatant. doug mcelway live in d.c. as of early this morning no charges have been filed against dzhokhar tsarnaev, the younger brother who remains in critical condition at beth israel hospital with a wound to the throat. at issue is whether the suspect should be held as a military combatant or a u.s. citizen, entitled to all of his rights, including the right to remain silent. thus far he has not been mirandized. one former u.s. attorney general says there is no hurry. they can wait really as long as they like. the fact is that he the only down side for them is the possibility that any statement that he makes might not be able to be used at trial. but they got so much evidence, including his own confession to the person
unlawful combatant precedent works. the whole point is to take people off the battlefield if they are unlawful combatants or committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, not to question them. number two, as has been extensively reported on, there is already a mechanism for this in our standard criminal law, the public safety exception. right. okay. you ve written about this issue for reuters. there appears to be enough evidence to convict tsarnaev whether or not he s mirandized. you caution against that kind of the attitude. why? i think we have to be very careful here. on the one hand, the justice department may have strong legal precedent to extend the amount of time that you can do this questioning without giving people their rights and reading them to them. and that might go well past 50 minutes. on the other hand, we don t want this executive branch to just roll right over people because they are suspected terrorists. and we know from the bush administration, which was re