Posted on 07/24/2008 7:21:40 PM PDT by HAL9000
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, July 24 (Reuters) - A driver for Osama bin Laden was not told of any rights against self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents told the Guantanamo war crimes court on Thursday."Our policy at the time was not to read Miranda rights," FBI special agent Robert Fuller said in testimony at the U.S. military commission trial of Salim Hamdan on charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism.
Fuller was referring to the Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1966, which held that potential criminal suspects in custody must be informed of rights to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
Similar warnings must be given to suspects in U.S. military custody, and suspects overseas who may face U.S. charges commonly receive warnings. "If they are a suspect, and they are detained, a Miranda is usually given," FBI special agent Stewart Kelley testified.
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Bin Laden’s driver HAS NO RIGHTS
WHY? The enemy is outside the US altogether, and he is provided no protection under the US Constitution - the US Constitution doesn't even apply on a foreign battlefield!
All the Gitmo terrorist scum is going to walk sooner or later because of the SC ruling. I’m just sorry they can’t be released in Souter’s, Stevens’, Ginsburg’s, Breyer’s, and Kennedy’s neighborhoods.
It is past time to modify or overturn Miranda . “You have the right to drink water through your nose”.
We are doomed.
If they'll just give the public the time and place they intend to turn this guy loose, the people will take care of the problem the government seems incapable of resolving.
Just shoot the phuk and be done with it.
Oh geez. I hope we didn’t allow Saddam HUSSEIN to go to the gallows without reading him his Miranda rights.
That would seem to be the eventual consequence of this nonsense. Unfortunately, what will probably end up happening is that our soldiers will be tried as war criminals for killing the enemy on the battlefield.
And since he was not in the uniform or a citizen of the country he as captured in, he also has no Geneva Convention rights.
Under the Geneva Conventions and the US Law of Land Warfare, this ILLEGAL COMBATANT (aka “spy”and “not lawful combatant” in the GC) has NO RIGHTS and, after a Military Trial, can and should be executed.
But we were told that AQ knew to use our laws and generally leftist lawyers against us years ago. Thanks to idiots on the Supreme Court, these trials will all become circuses.
How many German, Italian, Japanese POW’s were read their Miranda rights?
Good point. I forgot to add that this makes him a mercenary who was part of a group killing civilians of that country.
Again, no rights, especially those given in the US Constitution. Rights demand responsibilities. Rights without responsibilities are entitlements and those do not exist.
Inside the Beltway, the Constitution has become a suicide pact (when it’s not used for toilet paper).
I suppose screaming Kahluah at the Bar was their version of Miranda on 911.
Just shoot the phuk and be done with it.
The Constitution must be strictly followed for AQ. Of course, its a “living document” when it comes to actual US citizens.
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