You are overlooking the fact that they knew who they were looking for and the fact that under the 4th amendment all of this was illegal.
When the blond blue eyed folk or the black folk came to the door, it would be a pretty good bet it wasn’t the bomber. Then the treated them like criminals.
Disgusting.
As it was, the schmuck was hiding where they already searched. So much for that.
I don’t care if it was Osama Bin Laden hiding there...you do not treat citizens like the criminals you are looking for. This writer is totally correct.
I respectfully disagree that authorities were confident that they who they were looking for. This is evidenced by the MIT cop whom the bomber had killed earlier.