Podcast: Will the Boston Bombing Change Counterterrorism?: The New Yorker On Thursday, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced that, according to the F.B.I., the Tsarnaev brothers had planned to leave Boston for New York - not, as originally reported, to "party" but, allegedly, to detonate explosives in Times Square. Thankfully, that didn't happen, and for that credit is due to the various law-enforcement and counterterrorism agencies involved in the search for the two men. But what are we to make of how far they were able to get? What does the Boston Marathon bombing reveal about the United States" counterterror efforts - both at home and abroad? "What's most miraculous to me," David Remnick says, on this week's Political Scene podcast, "is that this hasn't happened more often." Remnick joins Jane Mayer and host Dorothy Wickenden to discuss America's counterterror tactics, including some of the more morally fraught issues, like the expansion of the drone war. "The rules of the game," Mayer continues, "are pretty hazy."