Posted by
Defend America on Friday, March 19, 2010 8:23:37 PM
March 18, 2010 4:00 A.M.
This Corpse Has the Right to Remain Silent
Holder bobs and weaves on legal rights for bin Laden & Co.
There
is dishonest, and there is asinine. Combine them and you have Attorney
General Eric Holder’s congressional testimony on Tuesday.
As the
Examiner’s Byron York
recounts, Holder — assuring Congress that he was not “dodging” questions about
Miranda
warnings for enemy combatants — dodged madly. Cornered, he insisted to
Rep. John Culberson (R., Texas) that there was no need to answer the
question of whether Osama bin Laden would be Mirandized on capture
because . . . he won’t be captured. Holder guaranteed that bin Laden
would instead be killed: “We will be reading
Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden,” Holder said. “He will never appear in an American courtroom.”
Now,
it’s certainly possible that bin Laden could be killed, as Zarqawi was
killed, by an aerial attack. But major al-Qaeda figures have often been
captured: KSM, Hambali, Zubayda, et al. If a combatant is disarmed or
surrenders, the laws of war require that the we accept that surrender,
that we capture rather than kill. Is Holder — who cavalierly accused
the Bush administration of war crimes — now suggesting that we refuse
to give quarter when quarter is sought? Is he suggesting that we kill
someone who has been rendered defenseless?
http://article.nationalreview.com/428315/this-corpse-has-the-right-to-remain-silent/andrew-c-mccarthy