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  • The Mark of McCain (McCain, Graham bill gave al-Qaeda terrorists rights under US Constitution)

    03/26/2010 1:25:33 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 15 replies · 525+ views
    If you want to find out why judges are releasing terrorists, ask McCain and Graham. "If we captured bin Laden tomorrow, would he be entitled to Miranda warnings at the moment of capture?” Sen. Lindsey Graham got a lot of mileage out of that question, which stumped Attorney General Eric Holder during a Senate hearing last November. (snip) Holder’s record of touting civilian judicial processes as the most effective form of counterterrorism strongly suggests that he does, in fact, believe that enemy combatants should be treated like ordinary criminal defendants — and that means Miranda warnings. But he shrinks from...