Officials tell the AP that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described the bomb plot but stopped talking after being read his Miranda rights on Monday.
Meanwhile, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name had been in the US terrorist database (apparently placed there by the CIA) for some 18 months prior to the attacks.
It turns out that Rand Paul is actually okay with drone strikes against US citizens within the United States as long as the strikes are on bad guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Kevin Curtis has left the building.
We already mentioned Adam Savader, the former intern to Newt and Mitt who hacked naked pictures of female college students and then tried to extort them to give him more nude pictures. Well, by Savader’s account he was frequently the guy in the Ellis the Elephant suit from the book written by Callista Gingrich!
House GOP leadership just cancelled the vote on pre-existing condition coverage that was designed to put Democrats in a bind. Instead, their own conservatives revolted. Sahil Kapur laid out what was going on earlier today.
Federal officials say the Boston bombs were detonated by remote control.
Federal agents are currently searching the Taekwondo studio of Everett Dutschke, the man now at the center of the ricin letter investigation.
To keep track, Dutschke is the failed GOP candidate, bluesman, taekwondo instructor and insurance agent who’s currently facing state molestation charges.
Adam Savader was on a roll — sweet political internships with Newt, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Now he’s facing federal charges for hacking into female college students’ email, grabbing their nude photos and then extorting them to send him more nude photos or else he’d publicize their nude selfies.
“If we don’t have a deal I will send the pictures to those people. Is that what u want? remember what’s at stake. do u want ur family and everyone in DC to see ur tits? Just agree to e-mail me a pic of u in a bra.”
A somber coda to last week’s events. A body pulled out of the river at India Point in Providence.