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Fruit of the Kaboom: Something is not adding up

hypocritexposer

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WASHINGTON - For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked — to U.S. Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.

He spoke openly about what he'd done and why, and provided valuable intelligence, U.S. officials told The Associated Press in a series of interviews that spell out for the first time the details of Abdulmutallab's arrest and questioning on Dec. 25.

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The bomb had severely burned Abdulmutallab but he was still conscious. As he was taken from the scene, federal agents repeatedly interviewed him or heard him speak to others. But when they read him his legal rights nearly 10 hours after the incident, he went silent.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35047524/ns/us_news-security//


White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Sunday defended the decision to read so-called alleged underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights after 50 minutes of interrogation, saying that ”FBI interrogators believe they got valuable intelligence and were able to get all that they could out of him.” ... “That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI by experienced FBI interrogators, Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But make no mistake Abdulmutallab was interrogated and valuable information was gotten by those experienced interrogators.”

After he was read his rights, Abdulmutallab stopped cooperating with investigators.

“The Department of Justice made the right decision, as did those FBI agents,” Gibbs said.
 

Tam

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One has to wonder now that Obama is connecting dots, (He is connecting them now isn't he?) if he wishes Holder would not have jumped the gun and mirandized the undie bomber? :? Probably not never mind. :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Oh and about those miranda rights.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:, March 22, 2009 edition of 60 Minutes

Well there is no doubt that-- we have not done a particularly effective job in sorting through who are truly dangerous individuals that we've got to-- make sure are not a threat to us, who are folks that we just swept up. The whole premise of Guantanamo promoted by Vice President Cheney was that somehow the American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists.
I fundamentally disagree with that. Now-- do these folks deserve Miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter-- down the block? Of course not.


Linky poo
President Barack Obama 60 Minutes Interview 03/22/09
 

Tam

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Jan 28 2010 Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One that the Obama administration is not backing off its plans to try accused Sept. 11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York City courtroom.
Pushing back on criticism from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said this week that the administration should consider moving the trial out of Manhattan, Burton emphasized: "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is a murderous thug who has admitted to some of the most heinous crimes ever committed against our country."

"The president is committed to seeing that he's brought to justice," Burton said, according to the pool. "He agrees with the attorney general's opinion in November that he and others can be litigated successfully and securely in the United States of America, just like others have — like Richard Reid. Currently our federal jails hold hundreds of convicted terrorists and the president’s opinion has not changed on that."


Jan 28, 2010 BREAKING -- The White House has asked the Justice Department to consider alternate locations for the planned Manhattan trials of self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged terrorists, according to reports.
The shift came after Mayor Bloomberg, who had supported the decision to hold the trails there, asked the Justice Department to reconsider on Wednesday, and a host of New York politicians then joined him in calling on the trials to be moved out of the city.

Does anyone talk to one another in this Administration? :roll:
 
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