Posted on 01/25/2010 7:57:23 PM PST by pissant
A bipartisan revolt is brewing in the Senate over the Obama administration's handling of accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. A small but growing number of lawmakers is asking the president to undo what many regard as the disastrously wrong-headed decision to grant Abdulmutallab full American constitutional rights. Once he was told he had the right to remain silent, the accused terrorist stopped talking to U.S. investigators, possibly denying them valuable intelligence about the threat from al Qaeda.
The revolt started last week when top administration counterterrorism officials testified they had not been consulted about the decision to read Abdulmutallab the Miranda warning and give him a court-appointed lawyer. Several senators were aghast, including Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman, the committee's ranking Republican Susan Collins, and the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican Jeff Sessions. How could the Justice Department have done something so consequential without even consulting the administration's own experts on terrorism and intelligence?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
So our government can search me illegally at airports without a warrant and force me to testify against myself via the income tax and that’s okay by liberal Democrats.
But we can’t do those things to foreigners coming here intent to kill us?
Am I hearing that right?
And this doesn’t mean the panty bomber.
This smacks of the work of Attorney General Holder, the man who refused to prosecute these Black Panthers who were intimidating white voters. The perps were a no-show at their hearing, but Holder dropped the charges. No reasonable explanation has been given, despite Freedom of Information Act requests and demands made by some republicans. Apparently, justice is whatever Eric Holder says it is.
No convincing the islamist In Chief and his henchman Holder.
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