On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs whether President Obama was informed of the decision to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights before or after it was done. Gibbs avoided the question, saying, “That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI, with experienced FBI interrogators.” Gibbs stressed that “Abdulmutallab was interrogated and valuable intelligence was gotten as a result of that interrogation.”
Wallace pressed. “But we now find out he was interrogated for 50 minutes,” he said to Gibbs. “When they came back, he was read his Miranda rights and he clammed up.”
“No,” Gibbs answered. “Again, he was interrogated. Valuable intelligence was gotten based on those interrogations. And I think the Department of Justice and the — made the right decision, as did those FBI agents.”
“Let me just press one last question,” Wallace said. “You really don’t think that if you’d interrogated him longer that you might have gotten more information, since we now know that Al Qaeda in Yemen — ”
“Well, FBI interrogators believe they got valuable intelligence and were able to get all that they could out of him,” Gibbs said.
“All they could?” Wallace asked.
“Yeah,” Gibbs said.
Now we have bin Laden sending out a message, and IntelCenter, a group that monitors Islamist websites is saying this about it:
"The Osama bin Laden audio message released to Al-Jazeera on 24 January 2010 contains specific language used by bin Laden in his statements in advance of attacks," IntelCenter said in a statement.
The group said it considered the language "a possible indicator of an upcoming attack" in the next 12 months.
Is this really the time to start allowing terrorists to lawyer up and avoid the type of interrogation necessary to keep this country safe? Nobody believes that 50 minutes is enough interrogation time to get all the information necessary out of someone that was going to blow up an airplane. It doesn't seem to me that he would be very forthcoming with information to help us when just hours before he was willing to die for his evil cause.
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These terrorists are war criminals and should be treated as such! No Miranda warnings! I am not saying be evil to them. I am also not saying send them to New York for a civilian trial. Americans DO NOT want to spends 100\'s of millions of dollars on these men.
Just my two cents,
Heather Laurie
www.specialneedshomeschooling.com
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