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Defend America on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:00:35 PM
GOP winning war over Miranda rights for terrorists
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
February 9, 2010
On
Capitol Hill, there's a war being fought over the War on Terror, and so
far, Republicans are winning. Or at least they're winning the Battle of
Miranda.
GOP lawmakers believe they are having some success in the effort to
stiffen the spine of the Obama administration as it makes policy for
dealing with captured terrorist suspects in the future. Even as the
administration defends its decision to grant accused Detroit bomber
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, the president
himself is hinting that things might be done differently in the future.
"Should the practice of reading suspected terrorist their Miranda
rights be reviewed?" CBS's Katie Couric asked President Obama during
Sunday's Super Bowl interview.
"Absolutely," Obama answered. "Everything should be reviewed."
"It's important for us to recognize," Obama explained, "that when
we're dealing with al Qaeda operatives, that they may have national
security intelligence that we need, and it's important to make sure
that the processes and procedures we approach with respect to these
folks are not identical to the ones we would use if we were
apprehending the local drug dealer."
Translation: Maybe we'll do it differently next time.
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