If captured, I hope Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes.

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

Lindsey, you idiot. The second suspect is an American citizen. How does a United States Senator justify calling a United States citizen an 'enemy combatant'?

Graham is feeding the right-wing paranoia about government, but in an amazingly stupid way. By calling for treatment of that suspect as anything other than an American citizen, he confirms the concerns those gun nuts have about government turning on them.

I hope they catch the guy alive, read him his rights, get him medical treatment, and try him according to constitutional principles. Screw that enemy combatant stuff. Do it right.

And Lindsey, as a United States Senator, you should know better.

Update: No, I guess he doesn't. Here's the next series of tweets..er, blather:

If the #Boston suspect has ties to overseas terror organizations he could be treasure trove ofinformation.

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to "remain silent."

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

The Obama Administration needs to be contemplating these issues and should not rush into a bad decision.

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

@washpost Boston bombing is 'Exhibit 'A' of why the homeland is the battlefield washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-tu…

— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) April 19, 2013

Just for a palate cleanser after that, here's what one sensible person added:

Graham says bombing suspect should be held as enemy combatant, not read his rights, but asking him to pass a background check? TYRANNY.

— Jim Fowler (@Jim_Fowler1) April 19, 2013