Posted on 01/24/2010 7:47:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“More cards are beginning to fall.”
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Timely too.
Right before his SOTU speech.
They editorial was taken for a ride. They believed the admin, and they’ll make the same mistake again.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/August/09-ag-835.html
The Task Force concluded, however, that the United States could improve its ability to interrogate the most dangerous terrorists by forming a specialized interrogation group, or High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG), that would bring together the most effective and experienced interrogators and support personnel from across the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense and law enforcement. The creation of the HIG would build upon a proposal developed by the Intelligence Science Board.
To accomplish that goal, the Task Force recommended that the HIG should coordinate the deployment of mobile teams of experienced interrogators, analysts, subject matter experts and linguists to conduct interrogations of high-value terrorists if the United States obtains the ability to interrogate them. The primary goal of this elite interrogation group would be gathering intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks and otherwise to protect national security. Advance planning and interagency coordination prior to interrogations would also allow the United States, where appropriate, to preserve the option of gathering information to be used in potential criminal investigations and prosecutions.
It's either the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing or, more likely, both hands are dedicated to protecting Muslim terrorists and not offending Muslim nations.
Meant to write “editorial board”
hahahaha, poor obama. Everyone’s dumping on him these days.
WaPo can just shove it up their collective butts.
You know, these idiots are the ones that say that it is The Press that keep democracy healthy.
All I can ever see is that they seek to destroy the country and then, when people actually make them look as stupid as they are, they recant to try to “save face.”
May the WaPo rot in Hell.
Could you imagine if these fruits and nuts actually knew what they were doing?
I know they know what they are trying to do. I meant they have no idea how to go about getting it actually accomplished when it involves the congress and stuff.
Gratitude to God .. and our Angel in the Whirlwind ..
things are happening. Keep praying and praying.
I think Holder will be gone by year’s end, if not sooner.
commie press discovered The People are not buying the national socialism communistic policies from the Resident and Czars in the Whtie house,
and also The People are not buying newspapers that lie and carry propaganda for the “progressives”
so commie press now changes tune for self preservation
Yes.
Mort Zuckermann was the 1st, I saw that as the signal. It is all down hill from here...
Good...’bout time to turn on the impostor...now those criminals in congress are trying to sneak obamacare care through.
Did Hell freeze over too?
He was interrogated for only fifty-minutes before they administered pain medication for his injuries. I doubt very seriously if he did much singing in that little time if they were that worried about his self-inflicted injuries.
No.
Abdulmutallab interrogated for less than an hour; White House defends handling of terrorist case
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
01/24/10 9:17 PM EST
The White House is not disputing a report that FBI agents questioned accused Northwest Airlines bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for just 50 minutes before deciding to grant him the right to remain silent and provide him with a court-appointed lawyer — a decision that led Abdulmutallab to stop talking and provide no more information.
The news came in an Associated Press reconstruction of Abdulmutallab’s first hours in custody. The AP reported that Abdulmutallab “repeatedly made incriminating statements” to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who originally took him into custody. Then Abdulmutallab made more statements to doctors who were treating him for burns and other injuries. Only later did FBI agents interview him — a session that lasted, according to the Associated Press, for “about 50 minutes.” Before beginning the questioning, the AP continues, “the FBI agents decided not to give him his Miranda warnings informing him of his right to remain silent” — apparently relying on an exception to Miranda that allows questioning about imminent threats.
After that, Abdulmutallab went into surgery. It was four hours before he was available for more questioning. By that time, the Justice Department in Washington had intervened. A new set of agents read Abdulmutallab the Miranda warning, telling him he had the right to remain silent — and thereafter, Abdulmutallab remained silent.
On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs whether President Obama was informed of the decision to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights before or after it was done. Gibbs avoided the question, saying, “That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI, with experienced FBI interrogators.” Gibbs stressed that “Abdulmutallab was interrogated and valuable intelligence was gotten as a result of that interrogation.”
Wallace pressed. “But we now find out he was interrogated for 50 minutes,” he said to Gibbs. “When they came back, he was read his Miranda rights and he clammed up.”
“No,” Gibbs answered. “Again, he was interrogated. Valuable intelligence was gotten based on those interrogations. And I think the Department of Justice and the — made the right decision, as did those FBI agents.”
Then we lost a Senate seat in Massachusetts to an Army JAG, who eviscerated Obama on this issue.
"I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation - they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them."
The only due consideration the WP had was many more Democrat seats would be lost in November with Obama's indefensible idiocy.
You’re difficult tonight!
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