Flip-Flopper In Chief Now Agrees to Reading Detainees in Afghanistan Miranda Rights
I personally want to stop writing and crawl back into the hole I found myself in over a year ago before becoming politically involved. This just keeps getting worse by the minute. Everyday there is something new occurring and some story being reported that seems worse than the last…
The Obama administration is granting Miranda rights to detainees in Afghanistan. This is simply ludicrous! Obama wants to allow FOREIGN terrorists US constitutional rights!? These same terrorists who want to destroy our military, the West and Israel!? My brain is hemorrhaging trying to comprehend this idiocy.
When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.
Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal — read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.
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 specialagent 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.”
Global justice? Global justice? The law of the land, the constitution, is no longer valid for liberals. The document that has given us the greatest country on Earth is apparently obsolete. Quite frankly, if liberals and anyone else for that matter, do not like America, then by all means, please move elsewhere and quit whining! I’ve lived abroad, and if anything, it makes one appreciate America even more…
This is a clear message to the troops – don’t defend America and if you do happen to defend Her, don’t take any prisoners just kill them all on the spot do what the islamo-fascists do and video tape a beheading. (I’m sure that will really improve our image abroad and help the problem in the Middle East). The liberals with the body count signs in their front yards from Iraq and Afghanistan will have to update regularly, since these actions are bound to cost more lives.
Does this also mean that any Gitmo detainees who are tried in court and were not read Miranda rights (which none of them were) would be released into the US immediately? Would there be a statute of limitations that would stipulate no detainees arrested prior to this new policy will qualify? If the former occurs then the body counting liberals should also create a sign for unarmed, innocent, American citizens who were killed by Obama’s naivete.
What is even more interesting is the fact that Obama completely flip flopped on this issue, when back in 2003 he opposed giving Miranda rights to foreign terrorists. It’s interesting to see those who can sell out their principles for political expedience. It’s the real ideologues who don’t have an issue with checking their values at the door if it will win them votes.
Juxtapose that with Governor Palin’s remarks at the RNC convention last year (as C4P has reported, it was another “I told ya so moment”)… I’m so glad we dodged the bullet on Palin last election/sarc!
Thank God for JaNo’s Overseas Contingency Operation… LOL!
No NATO Support for Obama
Barack Obama couldn’t even garner a significant amount of support from his allies in NATO. Some said that his G20 summit and first real international introduction has been a disaster. Some of his foreign blunders this week have included, giving the Queen of England an iPod, Michelle Obama touching the Queen, Obama, flummoxed on several questions, one of which was in regards to the fault of the economic crisis, and without his teleprompter could not speak well, his town hall in France where out of the 5 questioners, 3-4 of them were American and his speech was done through a teleprompter again, bowing down to the Saudi’s, or his snub of President Sarkozy’s wife, Bruni.
Some said that if he couldn’t get more spending committed to by the countries at the G20 and couldn’t bolster more support for the War in Afghanistan that his trip could be considered a failure. It will be interesting to see how his pet media personnel spin this in his favor, since some Democrats were on panels recently state the same thing. He only got $1T from all the countries involved at the G20 and the media screwed up his schedule as well. That $1T is less than half of what Obama was hoping for and now he has been snubbed by many of the NATO countries, who will not commit to backing the United States by sending more troops into Afghanistan.
Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America’s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities.
But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent’s leaders turned their backs on the US President.
Gordon Brown was the only one to offer substantial help. He offered to send several hundred extra British soldiers to provide security during the August election, but even that fell short of the thousands of combat troops that the US was hoping to prise from the Prime Minister.
The American: Supposed American Citizen Recruiting Somalians for Jihad
We can expect more of this with the new Overseas Contingency Operation…
I Hope the “Overseas Contingency Operation” is Ready for Pakistani Militants in D.C.
I’m glad we have our priorities straight in the Beltway. Instead of the “War on Terror,” we now have the “War on Capitalism.” Meanwhile, the War on Terror is now called the “Overseas Contingency Operation.” Helen Thomas would be so proud of how we are treating those “so-called” terrorists.
Great timing for the name change especially when the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, warned on Tuesday that he was planning an attack in Washington D.C., the likes of which has not been seen yet.
Mehsud’s troops reside in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, close to the Afghanistan border, working closely with al-Qaeda. Mehsud said that his attack would avenge the deaths of his soldiers killed by the recent drone aircraft attacks from the United States.
A senior U.S. official said, “We’ve seen a widening of the attacks,” out of the tribal areas, and added, “this has had the effect of having a lot of Pakistanis binding together. “
