Breaking news from The New York Times:

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings told F.B.I. interrogators that, as he and his brother plotted their deadly assault, they considered suicide attacks and striking on the Fourth of July, according to a law enforcement official…

The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan’s apartment in Cambridge, Mass., faster than they anticipated and so decided to accelerate their attack to the Boston Marathon on April 15, Patriots Day in Massachusetts, from July, according to the account that Dzhokhar provided authorities. They picked the finish line of the marathon after driving around the Boston area looking for alternative sites, according to this account.

In addition, Mr. Dzhokhar told authorities that he and his brother viewed the Internet sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American cleric who moved to Yemen and was killed in September 2011 by an American drone strike. There is no indication that the brothers communicated with Mr. Awlaki before his death.

How do we know all this new information, you ask? Why, under the public safety exception to the Miranda Rule. In other words, authorities questioned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and discovered all of this information prior to reading him his Miranda rights.

And yes, in case you were wondering, you are forgiven for thinking that none of that information is even remotely related to protecting the public from imminent danger. But don’t let it happen again.