It only took the Obama Administration 17 months to slowly back off its failed policy of reading Miranda Rights to terrorist and move closer to the Bush Administration’s way of dealing with them. The Obama administration said Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. flatly asserted that the defendant in the Times Square bombing attempt was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan.
Mr. Holder proposed carving out a broad new exception to the Miranda rights established in a landmark 1966 Supreme Court ruling. It generally forbids prosecutors from using as evidence statements made before suspects have been warned that they have a right to remain silent and to consult a lawyer. He said interrogators needed greater flexibility to question terrorism suspects than is provided by existing exceptions.
This is the same administration that promised to close Gitmo after years of criticizing Bush for housing terrorist there and yet, it remains open 17 months later. Where are the outraged liberal groups and their calls for “abiding by the rule of law” or how “the world will perceive us”. Let’s be honest, for liberals, its the rule of hypocrisy.
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