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in a bedside interrogation in Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
where he remains in fair condition.The brothers are suspected of setting
two bombs, at least one of which was made from a pressure
cooker packed with gunpowder and shrapnel, at the finish line of the
race April 15. Three people were killed and more than 200 injured.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted in the attacks,
which he said were prompted by the brothers' religious beliefs and anger
over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Crowds cheer arrest of Boston Marathon bombing
suspect
Shown here are Federal Premium hollow point bullets.APRepublican Rep. Jason
Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using
roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army,
as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their "massive"
bullet buys."It is entirely ... inexplicable why the Department of Homeland
Security needs so much ammunition," Chaffetz, R-Utah, said at a hearing.The
hearing itself was unusual, as questions about the department's ammunition
purchases until recently had bubbled largely under the radar -- on blogs
and in the occasional news article. But as the Department of Homeland
Security found itself publicly defending the purchases, lawmakers gradually
showed more interest in the issue.Democratic Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass.,
at the opening of the hearing, ridiculed the concerns as "conspiracy theories"
which have "no place" in the committee room.But Republicans said the purchases
raise "serious" questions about waste and accountability.Chaffetz, who chairs
one of the House oversight subcommittees holding the hearing Thursday, revealed
that the department currently has more than 260 million rounds in stock.
He said the department bought more than 103 million rounds in 2012
and used 116 million that same year -- among roughly 70,000 agents.Comparing
that with the small-arms purchases procured by the U.S. Army, he said
the DHS is churning through between 1,300
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