But What If Shahzad Opted To Clam Up?

Investors.com ^ | May 6, 2010 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[Kaslin]

“(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking.” John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May 4

All well and good. But what if Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square bomber, had stopped talking? When you tell someone he has the right to remain silent, there is a distinct possibility that he will remain silent, is there not? And then what?

The authorities deserve full credit for capturing Shahzad within 54 hours. Credit is also due them for obtaining information from him by invoking the "public safety" exception to the Miranda rule.

But then Shahzad was Mirandized. If he had decided to shut up, it would have denied us valuable information — everything he is presumably telling us now about Pakistani contacts, training, plans for other possible plots beyond the Times Square attack.

The public safety exception is sometimes called the "ticking time bomb" exception. But what about information regarding bombs not yet ticking but being planned and readied to kill later?

Think of the reason we give any suspect Miranda warnings. It is not that you're prohibited from asking questions before Mirandizing. You can ask a suspect anything you damn well please. You can ask him if he picks his feet in Poughkeepsie — but without Miranda, the answers are not admissible in court.

[knarf]

But what if it’s all misinformation?

[kittymyrib]

And why would any but the most gullible believe these liars’ claims that the terrorists keep talking after being Mirandized?

[Doogle]

SHUCK’EM

[USALiberty]

Shahzad has no “rights.” The fact that the Kenyan Administraton failed to start waterboardng that guy (or worse) within 10 minutes of his capture says VOLUMES. Shahzad and the administration are on the SAME SIDE!

[bog trotter]

For sure, I wouldn’t believe Holder any more than the perp.
Holder will say anything that he thinks will serve the purpose no matter what the guy may or may not say.

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

Unfortuntely, Shahzad is an American citizen (naturalized) and is therefore entitled to all the rights and privileges as we Natural Born American citizens (apparently, even the right to become President (gag)). Regardless of how he got his citizenship, he has it and that has to be respected. I have heard he was fast-tracked by the 0bama admin, but have no data to back that up. If he can be treated differently from other American citizens, then so can you and so can I. I don’t want to go down that road.

However, since he IS an American, he should be tried for treason, and upon conviction, taken out to the back 40 and shot by a firing squad - on the 5 o’clock news for all to see.

We have 2 shots at fixing this: 2010 and 2012. Then all bets are off.

[truth_seeker]

There is NO WAY to know we got everything he knows, in the brief download.

Just evidence Obama, Holder and the dems care more about terrorist rights, than about American lives.

[Cronos]

if he clammed up then we go into Pakistan, take the “islamic bomb” (what they call their nuclear weapons) away from them, and leave them to rot like the sh*thole they are.

[dtrpscout]

Two words: JACK BAUER

[fight_truth_decay]

But what if it’s all misinformation?

Seemed just too easy didn't it...the spilling his guts part.