Everyone is quick to blame only Reddit -- and they certainly deserve a great deal of it, collectively. But I think we should look at laying part of the blame on

Everyone is quick to blame only Reddit -- and they certainly deserve a great deal of it, collectively. But I think we should look at laying part of the blame on the professional investigators themselves, too. They clearly knew who they were looking for long before they released any useable information, and I think they should have taken more initiative to explicitly eliminate Reddit suspects they knew were not involved. They could have easily issued a brief statement definitely stating they cleared Sunil Tripath, for example, without releasing information on the identities of the actual bombers. Same goes for the two innocent guys that were featured on the front page of the NY Post. The investigators did a terrific job, and I don't want to put down anything they did. And maybe I'm being naive and this would be a slippery slope. But I still think some of these specific false accusations could have been mitigated very easily.