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By Madison Ruppert
Editor of
End the Lie
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
A recent report reveals a disturbing fact about the treatment of
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: his multiple requests for a
lawyer during his interrogation were ignored.
While
reports indicating that Tsarnaev’s Miranda rights were being withheld were disturbing enough, this new aspect pointed out today by
Glenn Greenwald is far worse.
Apparently, Tsarnaev was Mirandized only because a federal magistrate
decided to hold an in-hospital hearing for the suspect during which he was advised of his right to remain silent and appointed a lawyer.
This hearing interrupted an interrogation that had lasted some 16
hours up to that point. The Mirandizing of Tsarnaev upset former Mayor
of New York City Rudy Giuliani
who called it
“mind-boggling” and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers
who called the decision to intervene a “God-awful policy.”
Yet even more insane is that the Los Angeles Times
reported,
“A senior congressional aide said Tsarnaev had asked several times for a
lawyer, but that request was ignored since he was being questioned
under the public safety exemption to the Miranda rule.”
Greenwald points out that if this report is indeed accurate, it would
be a much more serious violation of essential rights than delaying
Miranda warnings under the “public safety exception,” even the expanded
version pushed by the Obama Justice Department.
Denying
the right to a lawyer
during interrogation after repeated requests is “as fundamental a
violation of crucial guaranteed rights as can be imagined,” according to
Greenwald.
“The bottom line is this: not telling a suspect about his rights in
order to try obtain brief, immediate and emergency public safety
information is one thing,” writes the lawyer writing under the name
“bmaz” for
Empty Wheel.
“Straight out denying and refusing a defendant constitutional rights he
is legally entitled to, and has tried to invoke, is quite another. The
government has issues on both fronts as to Tsarnaev.”
Invoking the public safety exemption to deny the right to a lawyer
has only been accepted in cases where “the intrusion into the
constitutional right to counsel [...] was so fleeting – in both it was
no more than a question or two about a weapon on the premises of a
search while the search warrant was actively being executed,” according
to bmaz.
“Nothing whatsoever like the 16 hours of interrogation applied to
Tsarnaev, across at least two sessions, over a period of at least two
days,” bmaz adds.
Even the use of the public safety exception was dubious, according to law
school dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
The public safety exception “does not apply here because there was no
emergency threat facing law enforcement,” according to Chemereinsky’s
article in the
Los Angeles Times.
That issue aside, the possibility that Tsarnaev’s requests for a
lawyer were actively blocked by the government is far more problematic.
“This is a US citizen
arrested
for an alleged crime on US soil: there is no justification whatsoever
for denying him his repeatedly exercised right to counsel,” according to
Greenwald.
Even more troubling, Greenwald highlights the fact that the Los
Angeles Times report indicates that if the federal magistrate did not
force herself into the situation, the interrogation could have continued
for even longer.
That interrogation apparently would have continued along with the Miranda delay
and the denial of Tsarnaev’s right to a lawyer. Meanwhile, lawmakers
are actually saying that the judge actually should not have stepped in.
As of now, it appears that the only confirmation of the government
ignoring Tsarnaev’s requests for a lawyer come from an anonymous
congressional aide cited by the Los Angeles Times.
As such, it should be treated with a healthy
degree of skepticism, yet the Los Angeles Times clearly believed the source to be credible and reliable enough to print the statement.
Glenn Greenwald sums up the importance of this issue quite nicely.
This is not something we can brush aside simply because it’s a suspected
terrorist, a Muslim, etc.
“If you cheer when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s right to counsel is denied,
then you’re enabling the institutionalization of that violation, and
thus ensuring that you have no basis or ability to object when that
right is denied to others whom you find more sympathetic (including
yourself),” Greenwald writes.
Indeed, how this simple fact is overlooked is beyond me at this
point. The promotion of the erosion of civil liberties for one person or
group just guarantees that it can and will be expanded to cover others
eventually. There is no reason to believe that the exceptions to our
most essential rights can’t be expanded to cover you as well.
I’d love to hear your opinion, take a look at your story tips and
even your original writing if you would like to get it published. Please
email me at
Admin@EndtheLie.com
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