The Same Motive for Anti-US 'Terrorism' Is Cited Over and Over

Glenn Greenwald @ Guardian UK - News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are anonymous, they work for the US government, the statements were obtained with no lawyer present and no Miranda warnings given, and Tsarnaev is "grievously wounded", presumably quite medicated, and barely able to speak. That the motives for these attacks are still unclear has been acknowledged even by Alan Dershowitz last week ("It's not even clear under the federal terrorism statute that this qualifies as an act of terrorism") and Jeffrey Goldberg just this morning ("it is not yet clear, despite preliminary indications, that these men were, in fact, motivated by radical Islam").  Read more.