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| Terrorists' 'Right to Remain Silent?' |
| 2009-06-11 |
| A senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee is accusing the Obama administration of quietly ordering the FBI to start reading Miranda rights to suspected terrorists at U.S. military detention facilities in Afghanistan. The move is reportedly creating chaos in the field among the CIA, FBI and military personnel, according to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. The soldiers, especially, he says, are frustrated that giving high value detainees Miranda rights -- the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney -- is impeding their ability to pursue intelligence on the battlefield, according to a story first reported by the Weekly Standard. "What I found was lots of confusion and very frustrated people on the front lines who are trying to, well, make Afghanistan successful for the United States and its allies," said Rogers, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee. Rogers, a former FBI special agent who served in the U.S. Army, just returned from Afghanistan and a visit to Bagram Air Base, where he said the rights are being read. "I witnessed it myself, talked to the people on the ground," he said. "What you have is two very separate missions colliding in the field in a combat zone. Again, anytime that you offer confusion in that environment that's already chaotic and confusing enough, you jeopardize a soldier's life." U.S. commanders told FOX News soldiers are not reading Miranda rights to detainees, but those commanders could not speak to whether the FBI was doing so. The practice has not been instituted at detention facilities in Iraq or at Guantanamo Bay, according to U.S. senior military officials. Asked if the Obama administration had ordered that Miranda rights be read to certain detainees, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "I have no reason to disbelieve a member of Congress. But I don't know any of the circumstances that are involved around it." But Gibbs acknowledged that it wouldn't be a surprise to find out that it was happening. Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd denied there has been a policy change covering detainees. "There has been no policy change nor blanket instruction for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas," he said in a statement, adding, "While there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas, at both Bagram and in other situations, in order to preserve the quality of evidence obtained, there has been no overall policy change with respect to detainees." Some senators wonder what would have happened if Khaled Sheikh Mohammad, a self-confessed architect of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, had been read his Miranda rights. "I'd be very concerned if we're sending FBI agents over to Bagram Air Base in the middle of a military operation to start reading Miranda rights to detainees caught on the battlefield," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #8 So incrementally we will bring a millions plus Jihadists to trail in the USA and some getting a few years in jail..then what? Coming to your neighborhood since their country of birth doesn't have human rights standard like wimpy America. Now that's what I call true Democratic Party visionary thinking to enlist new voters. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2009-06-11 23:14 |
| #7 give them the right too reamin silent with a bullet too the head |
| Posted by: funky skunk 2009-06-11 22:34 |
| #6 (people know that the US won't capture them alive will fight harder, trying to take some more Americans with them) given the brainwashing in the madrassahs, isn't it likely they're already taught this? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-06-11 21:54 |
| #5 reading a terrorist miranda over in Bagram? WTF kind of stupidity is this. Bagram was NATO last time I checked, so we are affording these swine U.S. Const rights while capturing them on battlefields in other countries? Obambi makes Jimmuh Carter look like a rhodes scholar. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-06-11 21:46 |
| #4 OP, they won't be killed while reading the perp their Miranda rights. First of all, it is the FBI that reads them their rights. By that time, the military has secured the terrorist, so they will not be a threat. The problem comes when the terrorists just clam up, because they know that we can't really hurt or kill them. All they have to do is sit it out, and eventually we will release them unharmed, to go back to jihad. I, too, am in favor of taking no prisoners. While that has other problems (people know that the US won't capture them alive will fight harder, trying to take some more Americans with them), it also solves the problem of treating terrorists like simple white collar criminals. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-06-11 20:06 |
| #3 The first time a US Soldier gets killed trying to recite Miranda rights to a prisoner, Obambi needs to be impeached and locked away for murder. There WILL be consequences for failure. Our current "president" is doing everything he can to make Jimmah Kahtuh look like a genius. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-06-11 17:53 |
| #2 SOLUTION......TAKE NO PRISONERS!! I'm a very simplified kind a guy. |
| Posted by: Jarong de Medici3580 2009-06-11 14:58 |
| #1 and they call GWB a dumbass |
| Posted by: funky skunk 2009-06-11 13:31 |