Miranda Rights for Terrorists

Miranda Rights for Terrorists

When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.

Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal – read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.

If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

Isn't this lovely. Known terrorists will now be transported to the US and given their Miranda warnings and access to ACLU styled cilvil liberties attorneys paid for by the US taxpayer.

And as George Tenet rightly points out, had KSM been treated like they treated terrorist during the Clinton years, we would have already suffered another attack to rival what happened to us on 9/11.

Someone once said, 'the time has long since passed for these temporary occupants of the White House, to continue to be allowed determine the destiny of this country.' That man was General Douglas MacArthur

If there was ever a time when those sentiments were more true, I am not aware of it. The president is literally setting the stage for this nation to be victimized once again, by radical Islam and its agents already in this country.