04/22/2013
"As much as this terrifies other civil libertarians and court wonks, this concept actually does make sense given the magnitude of what will be a very extensive case.
The Miranda warning was designed to prevent coercion and self-incrimination at the hands of law-enforcement officers (LEOs) when a suspect is arrested and brought in for questioning by informing a suspect of his 5th Amendments rights, specifically his right to silence and to legal representation. This "public safety exception", again, while a bit unnerving does make both legal sense as well as practical intelligence gather sense in that the information that Tsarnaev will be or is providing to the national security team (FBI, CIA, DIA, and NSA) will be inadmissible as evidence in any future trial, state and/or federal.
As such, one can assume that the investigators and likely prosecutor(s) are confident in the physical, circumstantial, and eyewitness evidence to convict him." Jonathan G. Banes
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/no-miranda-rights-for-now-for-bombing-suspect-90362.html
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured Friday night will not be immediately read his Miranda rights, a Justice Department official said. The announcement came as a debate broke out among lawmakers, lawyers and political activists over whether the suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, should be prosecuted...