Posted on 01/22/2010 6:07:21 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
I don’t believe that Director Robert Mueller told the whole truth.
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Mueller cited "Quarles" which indicates FBI agents initially believed "the use of the Miranda warnings could be avoided" because "public safety was at issue" (New York v Quarles). Perhaps limiting questions to asking Abdulmuttalab if he had accomplices aboard Flight 253 (who might also have bombs) and if bombers were aboard additional aircraft currently in flight or soon to depart would be upheld by the courts.
Yet at least two hours went by before they read Abdulmuttalab the warnings because FBI agents know similar and simultaneous attacks are al Qaeda's M.O. and Abdulmuttalab told them "twenty-five" others had trained with him in Yemen. ...
(The rest after the jump.)
(Excerpt) Read more at 911familiesforamerica.org ...
Face it
This administration is more worried about profiling and insulting a muslim or a black guy than saving hundreds or thousands of American lives
“Attorney General Eric Holder knows who advised the FBI agents.”
HOLDER is the idiot who directed this course of action!
And, he did so with complete support from Obama.
Ping!
UN-flipping-believable!
Ugg just how screwed in the head are these people?
MORE here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2434539/posts
DOJ: WH knew of plans to charge terror suspect
Politico ^ | January 21, 2010 | Josh Gerstein
PING!
More:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/22/collins-lieberman-introduce-bill-to-require-the-obvious/
This is also rather obvious. If the FBI director didn’t get consulted but his agents consulted “the Department of Justice and others in the administration,” Mueller testified, which means above his head. And that means Holder and the White House.
Since when did Eric Holder become The Decider on terrorism issues? True, Abdulmutallab was taken into custody in Detroit, but it was obvious from the get-go that this had international implications. First clue: the flight originated outside the US. With that in mind, how did the Attorney General come to the decision that the EunuchBomber not only should get booked rather than given to intel officers for more interrogation that might have exposed other potential bombers — without even picking up the phone to talk to counterterrorism heads?
We can’t connect dots when officials responsible for national security conduct petty turf wars and refuse to consult each other. Just for that alone, Holder should get fired. Republicans don’t have the juice to press for that at the moment, so instead they’re going to make it an explicit dereliction of duty the next time Holder tries it.
Thanks for the ping.
Exactly. The testimony by Admiral Dennis Blair, the U.S. government’s top intelligence official, regarding FBI interrogations and the High Value Interrogation Group cannot be misconstrued or misinformed. This is solely about the truth being too embarrassing to 0bama. At the very least, Holder must resign now. Senators McConnell, et al, do NOT let this go until head(s) roll.
Or they knew an attack was coming, got out of DC. Another attack would give reason for BO to declare marshall law or something worse. Remember there was talk of higher security right after Thanksgiving.
well, none of “them” fly commercial air, do they?
Actually, we have much to thank Holder for and his idiotic decision to try Kaleed Sheik Muhammed in NY. Apparently this was one of the big reasons independents in MA turned on the Dems, perhaps even more so than health care. A lot of the people who died on 9/11 boarded those planes in Logan. Brown struck a nerve with his quote “we should be spending money on weapons to kill them, not spending money on lawyers to defend them.”
Why is Mueller blatantly lying or at the
minumum omitting the facts? This is
unconscionable for the head of the FBI.
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The issue is enormously important because Abdulmutallab, newly trained by al Qaeda in the terrorist group’s latest hot spot, Yemen, likely knows things that would be very useful to American anti-terrorism investigators.
He’s not some grizzled old terrorist who’s been sitting in Guantanamo Bay since 2003 and doesn’t have any new intelligence. He’s fresh material. Yet he is protected by U.S. criminal law from having to answer questions.
Why? Republicans on the Judiciary Committee increasingly believe there is only one person who can answer: Attorney General Eric Holder.
It was Holder who made the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a criminal trial in New York. It is Holder who has expressed his desire to grant full American constitutional rights to foreign terrorists. It is Holder who is leading the administration’s sputtering effort to move some Guantanamo inmates to the United States.
And it is Holder who is apparently cutting other parts of the government out of crucial terrorism decisions like the treatment of Abdulmutallab.
“These days, all roads lead to the attorney general,” says one well-placed Republican source in the Senate. “They seem to have aggregated quite a bit of power inside Main Justice.” The problem is, the Holder Justice Department appears to be handling terrorism issues from a defense-attorney perspective, and doing so without the input of the government’s other terrorism-fighting agencies.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/On-bombing-suspect_-tough-questions-for-Eric-Holder-82305397.html#ixzz0dMMhvXW7
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What kind of threats can make top govt, sometimes long serving govt officials, sacrifice their credibility and reputations by being MUTE on the issue when questioned?
Obama’s watergate moment....Coverup!
If officials stay silent, and there is a real tragedy which occurs , say in an airliner being taken down over a city, then I assure you that heads WILL roll and those who kept quiet will be investigated for treason or fraud
Unconscionable and Holder is definitely to blame. The silence from the MSM to inform the public what transpired is just as unconscionable. Had it not been for Foxnews I would not have been aware hearings were being held.
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