{"id":4083,"date":"2010-05-09T21:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T01:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4083"},"modified":"2010-05-09T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T01:35:17","slug":"to-miranda-ize-or-not-to-miranda-ize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/09\/to-miranda-ize-or-not-to-miranda-ize\/","title":{"rendered":"to miranda-ize or not to miranda-ize&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/%7Er\/rawstory\/gKpz\/%7E3\/4o8orF7P4m0\/\">Liz Cheney: Obama&rsquo;s &lsquo;first instinct&rsquo; to Mirandize  terrorists<\/a><\/strong><br \/>    <strong><font color=\"#990000\">Raw Story<\/font><\/strong><br \/>    By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl<br \/>    May 9, 2010 <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Authorities  questioned the failed Times Square bomber for three to four hours  before notifying him of his rights, but Liz Cheney seems to be ignoring  that fact. The daughter of the former vice president told Fox  News&#8217; Chris Wallace that the Obama administration&#8217;s &quot;first instinct&quot; was  to read wannabe bomber Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;When  the administration captures a terrorist and their first instinct is to  inform him that he&rsquo;s got the right to remain silent, that is exactly the  wrong way to win this war,&quot; Cheney said Sunday. &quot;If you aren&#8217;t  willing to acknowledge that you&#8217;re facing a committed network of  terrorists as your enemies, and that it&#8217;s radical jihadist Islam, then  your response to that is gonna be, by definition, insufficient time and  time again,&quot; said Cheney. There appears to be little substance to  her claims in the most recent case. Attorney General Eric Holder has  insisted that reading Shahzad his rights has not limited their case in  any way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He was apprehended two days after  parking the SUV loaded with explosives in Times Square, and arresting  officers immediately questioned him about imminent threats before  informing him of his right to remain silent. They invoked the &quot;security  exception&quot; a legal means of circumventing the Miranda rights he is  guaranteed by his US citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/05\/09\/liz-cheney-insufficient\/\">Think Progress<\/a><\/strong> notes: <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul> Asked on  Friday whether Mirandizing Shahzad had impeded the ongoing  investigation, Attorney General Eric Holder said, &ldquo;No, it did not.  Reading suspects their Miranda warnings has not deterred them from  speaking to investigators, and Mr. Shahzad is, in fact, continuing to  cooperate with us.&rdquo; But, in Liz Cheney&rsquo;s world, this represents a  failure.<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Holder faces <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/0509\/holder-congress-update-miranda\/\">criticism from the left<\/a><\/strong> as well, after calling for  Congress to consider an update to Miranda rights in a television  interview Sunday.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Don&#8217;t you just love it when children of famous people strike out on their own, thinking for themselves instead of slavishly falling into the safety of their parental mold. Like, for example, Franklin Graham coming out hating Islamic people instead of falling into his father&#8217;s rut of preaching tolerance and acceptance. Or little George Bush striking off on his own to start a War in Iraq. Well Liz Cheney is no exception. Her father, Dick Cheney, would never wear bangs like she does. So she&#8217;s striking out on her own and complaining that the Obama Administration is <em>soft on terror<\/em>.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/0509\/holder-pakistani-taliban-linked-times-square-bomber\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holder: Pakistani Taliban linked to Times Square bomber<\/a><br \/>   <font color=\"#990000\">Raw Story <\/font><\/strong><br \/>   By  Agence France-Presse<br \/>    May 9th, 2010<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">As more evidence has emerged from the  failed Times Square bombing plot, officials have changed their story as  to whether the bomber acted alone. The Attorney General revealed Sunday  that Faisal Shahzad was connected to the Pakistani Taliban.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;We&#8217;ve  now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind  the attack,&quot; Holder said on ABC television&#8217;s Sunday current affairs  talk show &quot;This Week.&quot; &quot;We know that they helped facilitate it. We  know that they probably helped finance it, and that he was working at  their direction,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani born US  citizen, was pulled off a plane to Dubai and arrested Monday for  allegedly leaving a sport utility vehicle rigged to explode in New  York&#8217;s Times Square just over a week ago. Holder&#8217;s comments came  as the New York Times reported that the United States warned Pakistan it  must crack down on Islamic extremists or face severe consequences. General  Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, urged Pakistan&#8217;s  General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Islamabad on Friday to quickly begin a  military offensive against the Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda in North  Waziristan.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">John Brennan, the White House deputy national security  adviser, echoed Holder&#8217;s charges, pointing the finger at the Pakistani  Taliban in an interview with CNN. &quot;It looks like he was working on  behalf of the TTP, the Pakistani Taliban,&quot; Brennan said. &quot;This group is  closely allied with Al Qaeda. This is something that we&#8217;re taking very  seriously.&quot;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"124\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:2macjH3UoO-a0M:http:\/\/gargarstegosaurus.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/hamlet-and-friend1.jpg\" alt=\"you have the right to remain silent...\" title=\"you have the right to remain silent...\" \/>It&#8217;s fashionable these days for Left Wing bloggers to criticize the Obama Administration &#8211; not Progressive enough or &#8216;just like the Bush Administration.&#8217; Well, I for one like Eric Holder ,and I like the way the Obama Administration handled the Times Square bomber. They caught him. The questioned him in a way that worked while respecting his rights. They waited to say that he was trained by the Pakistani Taliban &#8211; until they felt like they knew the answer. Holder is neither too cryptic nor too open. But mostly, I trust that what he&#8217;s saying is the truth. <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sooner or later, one of these groups is going to succeed setting off a bomb here. It&#8217;s inevitable. The Cheneys are going to blame it on Obama and his being unwilling to get tough and water&middot;board people and being obsessed with Miranda-izing people. Then they&#8217;re going to talk about their own record&nbsp; on terrorism [having only lost 4000+ soldiers and 3000+ civilians on 9\/11 during their watch].  <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Meanwhile, the GOP [+ Joe Lieberman] have abdicated government altogether in protest for not being re-elected into power. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Cheney: Obama&rsquo;s &lsquo;first instinct&rsquo; to Mirandize terrorists Raw Story By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl May 9, 2010 Authorities questioned the failed Times Square bomber for three to four hours before notifying him of his rights, but Liz Cheney seems to be ignoring that fact. 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