FOXNews.com: Capitol Hill Republicans want 'combatant status' for bombing suspect, Obama yet to say

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Capitol Hill Republicans want 'combatant status' for bombing suspect, Obama yet to say Apr 20th 2013, 14:12 FILE: Friday, April 19, 2013: Frank McGillin, right, a Boston Marathon finisher, and wife Peggy amid a crowd reacting to the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects during a celebration at Boston Common.AP Top Republican senators say the suspect captured in the Boston Marathon bombing should be held as a potential enemy combatant, denying him a court-appointed attorney and other legal rights under the "Law of War" so investigators can learn about other possible attacks. Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, and John McCain, Arizona, made the statement Friday night -- hours after suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured in Watertown, Mass.,  about eight miles from the bombing site. President Obama in the immediate aftermath of the bombings declared them an "act of terrorism." And he vowed after Tsarnaev's capture to get answers but has yet to say whether the administration will use the combatant status. Imposing the status on 19-year-old Tsarnaev also would deny him Miranda rights, which essential state those arrested have a constitutional right to be told information they give to officials can be used against them. U.S. officials purportedly said Saturday a special interrogation team would question Tsarnaev without reading him the Miranda rights.  "The events we have seen over the past few days in Boston were an attempt to kill American citizens and terrorize a major American city," the senators said in a statement. "The accused perpetrators of these acts were not common criminals attempting to profit from a criminal enterprise, but terrorist trying to injure, maim, and kill innocent Americans." The second suspect, Tsarnaev's 26-year-old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed early Friday morning in Watertown in a shootout with police. Two bombs set off Monday afternoon near the marathon finish line killed three people and injured about 140 others. The senators also thanked intelligence and law-enforcement officials for capturing Tsarnaev and urged President Obama to use the combatant status. "Now that the suspect is in custody, the last thing we should want is for him to remain silent," the senators said. "It is absolutely vital the suspect be questioned for intelligence gathering purposes. … We remain under threat from radical Islam and we hope the Obama administration will seriously consider the enemy combatant option." The president on Friday night also thanked law enforcement officials and said the victims "deserve answers." "We will determine what happened," he said. "We will investigate any association that these terrorists may have had." New York Republican Rep. Peter King told Fox News before Tsarnaev's capture that his Miranda Rights could be denied. "I believe he can be interrogated under the public safety exception of the Miranda ruling because clearly life and death can be involved here," King said. "I feel confident the FBI has the right to interrogate him.

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