They withheld the Miranda Warning until he’d told them about the plot and who helped him. Probably a good tactic, as they EASILY had enough phyiscal evidence and witnesses to convict him without his statements.
He shut up immdiately after the Miranda Warning (Duh!), to they probably wouldn’t have gotten the information on the plot and other consiprators and plans.
Info revealed before the Miranda Warning cannot be used against HIM, but can be used against others.
If true, well-played.
Two words come to mind: Cluster F***
Too vulgar?
Then another two words come to mind: Keystone Cops
If “THEY” don’t do it HERE.....
Then
The MARINES don’t have to do it THERE (Miranda Iraq)
I haven't read the indictment - I don't even know if it's available online yet. But, it seems that even if a judge rules - which he will - that the Nigerian's statements, and evidence developed directly from those statements, can't come into evidence, there will still be PLENTY of other deeply incriminating forensic evidence and eye witness testimony available to the prosecutors.
It was probably the right decision because it at least got these facts out into public notice. The wrong decision is to try these people in criminal courts.
This is an entirely different type of act. Foreigners should be tried as hostile forces, and citizens should be tried for treason and sabotage.
Interesting. The FBI, of course, was acting sanely, trying to get information on his handlers and other details—which of course are now useless since no one appears to have acted upon them.
The FBI can use passenger evidence, and can carefully avoid using anything he confessed to before he was Mirandized.
But I suspect that the lib judges in charge of our system will still decide that the evidence is “tainted,” and let him go. For one thing, the stuff he blabbed about has been in all the newspapers and TV shows, and jurors would be pretty certain to know about it.
Maybe in a sad way it would be a good thing if they let him go. Because it will certainly demonstrate, in a case that virtually everyone has been watching, that treating enemy terrorist invaders as common criminals doesn’t work.
We already understand that here in FR. But it should drive the point home to much of the country. Whose fault if they let him go? Not the judge, he’s just doing his job. Not the FBI, they were just doing their job. Eric Holder and Obama. No one else. They were the guys who wanted to make this a criminal trial, as if he were a citizen who robbed a candy store.
Typical Obama pattern.
Get coverage for it in a yes way.
Then get coverage for it an a no way.....
Fruit of Kaboom Bomber *ping*
Since the terrorist is a Black African, Obama and Holder see him as a victim in Bush War on Terror. All the problems in the world are due to White people.
He should not have been mirandized and given a lawyer for the first week maybe two. The first and continuing priority should have been and should still be intelligence.
30 hours was too soon to usher the bomber into the criminal justice process. He should still be held and interrogated as an enemy combatant.
The administration is just trying to CYA with their stupid and dangerous ACLU derived policy.
Bullshit. Whole lot of revisionism going on here.
Let me get this straight. Joe Blow is arrested for a serious felony. Many witnesses have identified Joe Blow as the perp. Joe Blow is not mirandized or offered an attorney. Moot point—everyone “knows” he did it.
This disgusting show of hypocrisy turns my stomach. Either Obama offers the protection of the Constitution or he doesn’t. There is no half measure.
The reality is if this is true he has lied to his base along with everyone else.