As High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group investigators gather information on the case and await more time at Tsarnaev's bedside, doctors and nurses have tried to make the suspect comfortable - or as comfortable as someone suffering from multiple gunshot wounds can be.

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He has vocally defended Mr Bush's policies on the interrogation of suspected terrorists, and suggested that the authorities should spend more time monitoring mosques.

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Partly because it was the first such interrogation of a sitting German minister to be broadcast live, gallons of ink were spilled and hours of air time devoted to analysing every detail of Mr Fischer's performance.

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