Two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
Just 24 hours after
the Boston Marathon bomb attack,
there is intense media interest in the identity of possible "persons of
interest" or suspects. In the immediate aftermath of the explosions,
some news organisations
continued to report that a Saudi man was under police guard – even after investigators had explicitly denied that anybody had been arrested. On Tuesday, it emerged that the man had been questioned as a witness, not a suspect.
As
the FBI and police begin sifting through what they have described as a
variety of leads, it is inevitable that they will look at some
individuals or groups who turn out to have had no involvement. Previous
major investigations provide cautionary tales about the dangers of the
investigators or the media rushing to judgment.
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