This is what the War on Terror has come to after the Boumediene ruling:
The driver for Osama bin Laden was not told of any rights against self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents told the Guantanamo war crimes court on Thursday.
~~~The military commission trying Hamdan has ruled he has no rights against self-incrimination.
Hamdan, a Yemeni father of two with a fourth-grade education, is the first Guantanamo prisoner to face trial before the controversial tribunal at the remote base on Cuba. He faces life in prison if convicted. His trial is the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
Prosecutors are seeking to portray Hamdan as a close associate of bin Laden who was aware of plotting for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and supported them with his efforts. Defense attorneys have characterized Hamdan as a simple employee.
Seven agents, six from the FBI and one from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, testified on Thursday about questioning Hamdan in sessions from shortly after his capture in November 2001 to 2003 at Guantanamo.
Just unbelievable. It’s like a bad dream. Just utterly ridiculous. Imagine our soldiers on the battlefield readin Miranda rights to a captured terrorist to extract time sensitive information. Its like a bad Ben Stiller movie.
I hate to say I told you so, but this has been coming for three years — ever since the McCain amendment. Everybody pooh-poohed it because it sounds too absurd. Alien combatants having constitutional rights used to sound absurd too. So did al Qaeda having Geneva Convention rights. So did the U.S. courts entertaining lawsuits by the enemy against the officials Congress authorized to fight the war. It all sounds crazy … until it happens.
Our fighting men and women are not law enforcement and this is not a law enforcement issue. The Supreme Court and the liberals in this country our forcing us to act like it is which can only lead to bad, bad consequences.
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It’s not a new attitude, but kill em all and let god sort them out.
I read about these al Queda types that are in prison in Iraq. They form Shria law gangs, try people, beat them etc. and maybe we want these guys in our prisons on American soil. Lord, what a mess!