Posted on 02/12/2010 7:27:23 AM PST by dirtboy
It seems to me unlikely that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will be known to future generations of lawyers for generating any groundbreaking legal principle or issue. But when it comes to illuminating our public discourse about the "global war on terror," he is right up there with Clarence Earl Gideon, Ernesto Miranda or even Jose Padilla. His case presents in one tidy package virtually all the issues that arise from the role intelligence plays in this struggle and compels us to examine what the law requires and what it doesn't.
When Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb concealed in his undershorts, he committed a crime; no doubt about that. He could not have acted alone; no doubt about that either. The bomb was not the sort of infernal device readily produced by someone of his background, and he quickly confirmed that he had been trained and sent by al-Qaeda in Yemen.
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He should have been wooshed away and interrogated. The same rights as residents of the USA?? Ridiculous!
I’m starting a new rumor....Did you know that Obama pulled a LIHOP on this underwear bomber incident?
You mean he put a pancake on his head??
Correction..he is not the Christmas day bomber, he is the winter festival or holiday bomber!
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