It is my understanding that being "Mirandized" is something that the Police are obligated to do upon arrest.
However, they are not granting you "Miranda" rights or any other rights.
They (the police) are merely "reading" you your rights and making sure that you understand them.
Every citizen already has these "Miranda" rights - they are granted by God (as all rights are) to individuals and are simply guaranteed by the US Constitution in the Bill of Rights.
So whether it was the FBI that was asking him questions, or the Boston Police Dept, or Obama himself... the simple fact of the matter is that the bomber already had these rights (especially the right to remain silent) as a condition of his citizenship.
So, if you want to rail against something in this mess - and there is plenty to rail against - that it should be the crappy system that allowed him to become a citizen in the first place, among many other government failures.
Because once you are a citizen of the United States you are under the protection of the US Constitution.
If we - as a nation, and as the self-appointed defenders of the US Constitution (conservatives in general) - start allowing the government to carve out exceptions on the protections of the US Constitution then you might as well wipe your backside with that parchment for all it will mean then.
Again - I look forward to any reasoned response to what I see as the only position we can take as conservatives. Sometimes being right is very hard to do... and sometimes it even bears a high price.
Wrong. Miranda "Rights" are the extrapolated result of a Supreme Court ruling and have the shakiest of constitutional underpinning. The US criminal justice system functioned for 200 years without them.