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| Fight against terror takes pals to the White House
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 29-April-2013
4:0:32 AM |
| President Barack Obama had gone to his residence after a difficult week when an urgent email brought him rushing back to the Oval Office. The suspect in the Boston bombings had been apprehended.
"They have him in custody, it is white hat," White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco wrote to chief of staff Denis McDonough. That was reference to the cap that 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was seen wearing in surveillance video that led to his capture.
Soon Monaco was briefing the president on developments.
Elsewhere in the West Wing, Tsarnaev's apprehension got White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler thinking about what legal rights the suspect should have. She consulted with the FBI on the legal rationale to initially question Tsarnaev without notifying the suspect of his Miranda rights, to quickly learn whether anyone else was in danger, and she advised Obama on the conclusion not to prosecute him as an enemy combatant.
For Monaco and Ruemmler, the events were another step in more than a decade of teamwork for friends who first met amid the shock and confusion of the Sept. 11 attacks and worked together as prosecutors and at the top levels of the Justice Department.
The Boston bombings were Monaco's first high-profile test since she replaced John Brennan, the current CIA director, as Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser.
She was the first to brief the president on an attack that hit close to home for her. Monaco is from the Boston suburbs, she graduated from Harvard and her brother lives near the finish line, but was unharmed.
Monaco kept Obama updated day and night, along with developments in the investigation of possible poisonous letters sent to the president and the Senate, and the explosion that killed 14 in a small Texas town.
Ruemmler, who joined the White House in 2010, has become a trusted member of Obama's tight-knit inner circle, a rarity in a White House that has proved difficult to navigate for outsiders
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