Nick Hentoff: There Is No "Public Safety Exception" (ERRATA: THERE IS)

In an article yesterday aboutDzhokar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing,C.N.N. had this quote from an anonymous Justice Department official: “The government has invoked the public safety exception, a designation that allows investigators to question the teen without reading him his Miranda rights and without a lawyer present.”

This morning my friend Nick Hentoff, attorney and journalist, wrote:

There is no such thing as a “public safety exception”...