The left laughed whenever we said Obama would be reading terrorists their rights. Well, here you go:
If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.
Rogers, a former FBI special agent and U.S. Army officer, says the Obama administration has not briefed Congress on the new policy. “I was a little surprised to find it taking place when I showed up because we hadn’t been briefed on it, I didn’t know about it. We’re still trying to get to the bottom of it, but it is clearly a part of this new global justice initiative.”
Who’s laughing now?
Look, we tried this before, this concept of treating terrorists like common criminals. As if blowing up buildings and killing thousands of innocent people is the same as picking someone’s pocket. It doesn’t work. Clinton dragged his feet doing this for his entire term, and on 9/11 three thousand people paid for his incompetence with their lives. Bush changed the policy to be that terrorism was an act of war, and responded accordingly. Say what you will about Bush, his policies kept us safe for the remainder of his term. Now Obama is going back to where we were prior to 9/11. And mark my words, we will be hit again as a result. You know it, I know it, the left knows it, and the President knows it. His only concern is how he can blame it on Bush, like he’s done on everything else so far.
