This is long and posted before; the 5th amendment is for the innocent. Don’t talk to cops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Even if FedGov is doing a 'no comment' schtick they should be telling us who won't comment. They should be telling us who is arrested, they should be figuring out what jails the arestees have been taken to.
Old school beat reporters were masters of this. They bought lunch for jail guards so they could get in to talk to arrested prisoners. They had police scanners. They talked their way into stuff. They went to the bars that SWAT teams were doing their wind-downs at.
Instead we get nothing. Incoherent parts of stories, comments from people with the most tangential connection to what is going on.
It's pathetic.
Someone should start a real newspaper. I would pay to read it.