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Obama administration thinks 50 minutes of interrogation is enough for terrorists

Posted 24 Jan 2010 in Barack Obama, dhimmitude, jihadists, stupidity, terrorism

For years, we’ve been told how terrible President George W. Bush is because he insisted on keeping terrorists detained in Guantanamo. President Barack Obama ran on a campaign promise that he would shut down Gitmo and put terrorists on trial in civilian courts (because surely, when all the jihadists see how nice & reasonable we are, they’ll stop trying to kill us, right?).

Now we’re seeing how that kind of misguided ideology plays out in the real world.

Washington — For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked—to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.

He spoke openly about what he’d done and why, and provided valuable intelligence, U.S. officials told The Associated Press in a series of interviews that spell out for the first time the details of Abdulmutallab’s arrest and questioning on Dec. 25.
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The FBI interview with the suspected bomber lasted about 50 minutes. Before they began questioning Abdulmutallab, the FBI agents decided not to give him his Miranda warnings informing him of his right to remain silent.

While the Miranda warning—based on a 1966 Supreme Court ruling—is a bedrock principle of the U.S. justice system and a staple of television cop shows, there is a major exception which could apply in Abdulmutallab’s case.

Investigators are allowed to question a suspect without providing a Miranda warning if they are trying to end a threat to public safety.

In a future trial in a federal court, prosecutors would likely justify Abdulmutallab’s questioning without a Miranda warning by arguing that the FBI agents needed to know quickly if there were other planes with other bombs headed for the United States. The 9/11 attacks and other past plots have shown al-Qaida’s penchant for synchronized attacks in multiple locations.
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There was no effort to call in the elite federal High-Value Interrogation Group, a special unit of terror specialists that the Obama administration said early last year it would create to deal with terror suspects captured abroad.

50 minutes of questioning? Hell, kids who shoplift a candy bar get harsher interrogation! Rather than place priority on gathering as much intelligence as possible from a known terrorist who was freely communicating, the Obama administration preferred to give this scumbag an attorney and the benefit of the doubt reserved for American citizens in our legal system.

Having rested and received more extensive medical treatment, Abdulmutallab was told of his right to remain silent and right to have an attorney.

He remained silent.

I’d like to know who hired Inspector Clouseau to head up the FBI. Byron York has more on the Obama administration’s 50-minute spin.

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 had been done. Gibbs avoided the question, saying, “That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI, with experienced FBI interrogators.” Gibbs insisted 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.” …

Bottom line: Gibbs did not dispute that the FBI interviewed Abdulmutallab for just 50 minutes. But Gibbs maintained that agents learned everything that was possible to learn from the accused terrorist, who was trained by, and presumably knew about, the activities of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. If the agents learned everything that was possible to learn from Abdulmutallab in just 50 minutes, it was likely a world record of interrogation.

So, 50 minutes was enough to assure the Obama administration that they had extracted every bit of information possible from Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. They must have someone on staff that makes Jack Bauer look like a pansy. Either that or a constant diet of hopeychange rainbows and unicorns is clouding the judgment of those in charge of protecting America from psychopaths intent on our slaughter.

Feeling safe yet?

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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