When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.
Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal – read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.
If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.
The Obama administration is certainly hampering our intelligence community from gaining any information from those who are captured making bombs or killing American soldiers. These people are not American Citizens and therefore have no Constitutional rights to a lawyer or anything else guaranteed by our Constitution, they are terrorists.
maybe, Mr. Obama is 'holding up a blanket' to hide what is really done.............it's been done before.........war is nasty business,,,it will ALWAYS exist, it will ALWAYS be there and it will ALWAYS kill/torture/maime etc.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Sal only American Citizens have the rights given to us by the Constitution not terrorists. Go over to Iran, N Korea, China, or Russia and see how many rights you have.
Where is the thread about the terrorists who are actaully IN BERMUDA AT A RESORT ON THE US TAXPAYER BUCK COURTESY OF BARACK HUSSEIN? if this were a campaign commercial last fall by the evil republicans, they would be calling it "LIES" and "INSANE TO MAKE SUCH INSINUATIONS!"
he couldn't look MORE LIBERAL OR WEAK! They really should have thought this one over.
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