Posted on 01/09/2010 11:52:03 AM PST by Schnucki
President Barack Obama is under fire over claims that the Christmas Day underwear bomber was "singing like a canary" until he was treated as an ordinary criminal and advised of his right to silence.
The chance to secure crucial information about al-Qaeda operations in Yemen was lost because the Obama administration decided to charge and prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an ordinary criminal, critics say. He is said to have reduced his co-operation with FBI interrogators on the advice of his government-appointed defence counsel.
The potential significance became chillingly clear this weekend when it was reported that shortly after his detention, he boasted that 20 more young Muslim men were being prepared for similar murderous missions in the Yemen.
The lawyer for the 23-year-old Nigerian entered a formal not guilty plea on Friday to charges that he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25 – even though he reportedly admitted earlier that he was trained and supplied with the explosives sewn into his underwear by al-Qaeda in the Arab state.
"He was singing like a canary, then we charged him in civilian proceedings, he got a lawyer and shut up," Slade Gorton, a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept 2001 terror attacks on the US, told The Sunday Telegraph.
"I find it incomprehensible that this administration is treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue. The president has finally said that we are at war with al-Qaeda. Well, if this is a war, then Abdulmutallab should be treated as a combatant not a criminal."
Abdulmutallab could have been held and interrogated in military custody under existing US legislation before a decision was taken whether to charge him before a military tribunal or a civilian court, according to Michael Mukasey, the last Attorney General under President
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We can’t have Democrat allies singing like canaries about thier associations, can we.
IMHO
HA! That’s just great....
I heard his lawyer on TV this a.m. claiming that everything he said will be thrown out.
Just. Great. Holder. But no surprise, we already know he likes to free terrorists and world class criminals.
$100 million to try this idiot!
This communists Muslim stupid nitwit King Obama is going to get Americans killed. This rotten piece of garbage still has a following of millions of ignorant Americans that will be part of that bunch of as#holes that just might get murdered by terrorist. Stupid beyond belief.
What I find strange is that we only seem to be able to get accurate, complete information/reportage about things that happen in the U.S. from newspapers in the U.K.
GOD help us.
A once-great nation is being destroyed before our eyes.
*facepalm*
At times like this, we need to ask ourselves WWPD. The Obama approach is clearly not working.
WWPD is “What would Putin do”
Not if the Jihadi’s actually betray the Democrats and get to DC first.....
and Russia.
That was the point. 0bama can’t have fellow Muslims helping us defend ourselves.
It does seem that we are witnessing the lead-up to the “perfect storm”.
Our troops are falsely accused of crimes by Democrats and they get a military trial. They even go so far as declaring the war lost. Fanatical terrorists bent on killing the innocent get lawyers and multimillion dollar trials while the MSM cry that they were driven to it by mean ‘ol Bush.
Then the Democrats scream foul when you accuse them of being unpatriotic.
“I heard his lawyer on TV this a.m. claiming that everything he said will be thrown out.
Just. Great. Holder. But no surprise, we already know he likes to free terrorists and world class criminals.”
For those who aren’t aware, Eric Holder’s lawfirm defended Yemeni Gitmo detainees.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/23/pay-attention-to-eric-holders-law-firm-and-gitmo-detainees/
The enemy of our country is sitting in the White House. He is totally sympathetic to the jihadist cause.
I used to think that 0bama was the worst pres__ent ever. Now I realize that both he AND his administration are the worst our country has ever seen.
We are on our own to defend our own lives and the lives of our family.
Period.
Can’t you just imagine what was going through this man’s mind when he was taken into custody? He had probably bought into all the liberal BS about what we do to prisoners and was expecting hell on Earth. Imagine his delight when he found out he was being charged, and treated like an ordinary common criminal in the US of A. His first thought was likely something like, “And people say there’s no Allah!”
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