Matanov had a legitimate reason to fear for his safety when the FBI or State Police came around.
Here’s Governor Patrick on March 24, 2014
“. . . one State Trooper who works with me said, ‘Any one of them would have gladly put a bullet in the suspect,
And here’s FBI agent Rick DesLauriers being interviewed by Scott Pelley Sixty Minutes
Rick DesLauriers:”[Tsarnaev] had a smug grin on his face much of the time in the courtroom. He would glance over his right shoulder back to his relatives, and smile, and smirk at them. And I found that absolutely galling. And I found it reprehensible.”
DesLauriers goes on to say that he approves of the death penalty for Tsarnaev.
The FBI and the State troopers executed a witness about a month later. If I were Matanov’s lawyer, I would want to know if Aaron Macfarlane was working on the Marathon Bombing, and I would like to see what was on the hard drive of his computer, as well as the hard drives on the computers of the other investigators in this case.
I’m not a lawyer, so there’s one thing I don’t understand. What is the difference between what Matanov was arrested for and what Boston College has done, ie., deleting information before it can be subpoenaed by the authorities?
