Posted on 11/19/2009 7:51:57 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Leahy: We don't need to interrogate bin Laden By Michael O'Brien - 11/19/09 10:32 AM ET
If the U.S. captures Osama bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of that committee, said that arguments raised by Republican senators about whether bin Laden would be afforded Miranda rights if he were captured were a "red herring."
"The red herring that my friend [Sen.] Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was covering is not realistic," Leahy said during an appearance on "Washington Journal" on C-SPAN.
"For one thing, capturing Osama bin Laden -- we've had enough on him, we don't need to interrogate him," Leahy added.
Graham had grilled Attorney General Eric Holder during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday on whether bin Laden should be afforded due process in courts if he were captured.
"The big problem I have is you're criminalizing the war, that if we caught bin Laden tomorrow, we have mixed theories and couldn't turn him over to the CIA, the FBI, military intelligence for an interrogation on the battlefield, because now you're saying he's subject to criminal court in the United States and you're confusing the people fighting this war," Graham said.
Leahy stuck up for Holder's decision to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other detainees to New York for civilian trials on "Washington Journal."
"We're going to bring them back to New York and prosecute them," he said. "I think we ought to stand up and applaud that."
Leahy’s election, alone, is reason to kick Vermont out of the Union.
What an idiot Leahy is. Now everybody but the Congressional Black Caucus is scared of being labeled a racist if they disagree with any decision Obama or Holder make. It appears Holder was partially right about being cowards on the issue of race ... he was just talking about Congress!
But Rev. Manning's fair game, eh LeakyL?
What a disgusting POS.
If Leahy was captured, all that’s needed to break him down is to show him a picture of Cheney.
My God. Oh my God.
We can take a punch, and, are taking notes.
2010.
There will be change. ;^)
Dems are enemies of my country.
OHHHHHHHHH YES WE DO! We actually manage to catch him alive, we need to stick that creature of Satan into a Sensory Deprivation Tank for a month or so, and *then* start interrogating him.
The Demogenerates are a piss ass Lobryd culls, of sniveling Domestic Enemies of Humanity.
No, leaky Leahy... we wouldn’t want to sit Osama down and make him cough up his entire operation and his plans for succession and leadership tree. No, Leahy.. we just want to put him on trial for his “crimes”. Leahy is a complete moron, and because of his huge mouth was kicked off the Senate Intel committee. Kind of a small mind, small town dumb ass Vermonter type moron and political apparatchick. So, when KSM’s attorney, who works for Eric Holder’s law firm, brings up the lack of Mirandizing... what will be said...”oh the Paki ISI arrested him, and under their laws they don’t do that”. Really? So why are we extending American citizen’s rights to an enemy combatant who has confessed. We need to push these bastards every step of the way to reveal their agenda, discredit them and stop this insanity.
But, keep him on a dialysis machine so he lives long enough to be sensory deprived.
The liberal, communist constituency of Leahy and his ilk love the free bread and circus provided by these loons. Their constituents will NEVER vote for anyone other than an outright communist. We ARE doomed..
No doubt! and on IV feeding tubes.
KSM will go free on appeal, mark my words.
And in the end they will blame... BUSH.
I’d love to interrogate Leahy.
Stupid question, but didn’t Obama promise last year that capturing or killing bin Laden was job #1? Didn’t he criticize Bush for not capturing him?
Question from the past: Where is bin Laden, Mr. President?
Don’t forget collge football....they have to fix the National Championship system.
Why should bin laden get in the way?
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