Posted on 05/11/2010 3:47:30 AM PDT by Scanian
Why is the Obama administration now taking terrorism so seriously?
In the immediate aftermath of the May 1 Times Square bombing attempt, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano -- in typical fashion -- rushed to minimize the plot, calling it a likely "one-off" attack.
But scarcely a week later, Attorney General Eric Holder is seeking a significant rollback in suspects' Miranda rights -- so as to better head off the next one.
Talk about whiplash.
President George W. Bush was savaged by Obama's liberal allies for supposedly "shredding the Constitution" in the War on Terror, but he never called into question the 44-year-old Supreme Court decision that formalized an American's "right to remain silent" while in police custody.
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I find it inconsistent that an administration would seek to change Miranda yet we’ve heard nothing but what MIGHT happen with the Arizona illegal immigration enforcement law. Hell, what MIGHT happen if they muck with Miranda? What kind of slippery slope is the administration going to set up with police departments from the FBI all the way down to Boss Hogg of Hazard County?
It makes no sense to me and clearly they haven’t thought it through. It’s really hard not to believe that they want to do this so they don’t have to admit they might have been wrong? This is way arrogant and reckless.
Learn faster kids, the next bomb could go off.
They couldn’t wait to read the miranda rights to the undie bomber.
If I had creditable intelligence informing me a major terrorist attack was imminent and my options for stopping it was limited, due to my own complacency, I'd put on a show of being tough on terrorism too. If only to save my hide when it does happen.
The talk is that the incompetent clowns in Obama’s regime, including the clown prince himself, have picked up intelligence so overwhelmingly threatening to the nation that they want to get out ahead of it before it happens and at least say “Well, if there had been survivors, we would not have read them their miranda rights! So that makes it all better!”
Serial Screw-ups!
Words, just words.
Dangerous words from Holder with regard to Miranda.
BEWARE
BO is NOT taking terrorism seriously. BO is using this "crisis" as an excuse to begin to open the door to allowing the federal government to "revise" Miranda rights for people THEY deem to be terrorists.
The people BO deems to be terrorists are not Islamofascists. The people BO deems to be terrorist ARE THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIS AGENDA.
“If I had creditable intelligence informing me a major terrorist attack was imminent and my options for stopping it was limited, due to my own complacency, I’d put on a show of being tough on terrorism too. If only to save my hide when it does happen.”
Exactly ! This is CYA time for Obama and his henchmen.
Ralph Peters has an excellent column on this in today’s NY Post.
We are in serious danger right now !....Obama, Holder and Napolitano & Co. are going to be responsible for the deaths of many Americans before long.
America....what did you do in Nov. 2008 ???
They’ve probably gotten intelligence on future attacks. Obamamania failed to turn the terrorists.
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