Holder in ‘02: It’s "Hard to Interrogate" Enemy Combatant in the U.S. Because "He Has a Lawyer"
In a letter today to Senator Mitch McConnell, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to have FBI agents read Miranda rights to Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and to charge him in civilian court. Holder challenged the claims of some critics that the presence of a lawyer would in any way hurt U.S. intelligence [...]
Axelrod: "We Have Not Lost Anything" by Giving Abdulmutallab Miranda Rights
Top White House adviser David Axelrod believes the U.S. government properly handled the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, despite the fact that Abdulmutallab stopped talking to interrogators after having had Miranda rights read to him. In an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Axelrod was asked about the decision to read Abdulmutallab his rights [...]
At Last, Just What We Need…
Let us take inventory of the last nine months (only as long as it takes to bring a baby into the world):
Our president is driving the Crazy Train to national bankruptcy.
He’s hunting high and low for a way to lose two wars.
He’s appeasing our enemies and alienating our allies.
He has as much as accepted Iran [...]
Another Immodest Proposal: Housecalls R Us
Some discussion in the comments of a previous post here center around the problem of poor people, seniors, and illegal aliens (with some obvious overlap) using emergency rooms and trauma centers as doctor’s offices. That is, these patients cannot or will not, for various reasons, visit ordinary doctors’ offices for their non-emergency conditions; so [...]
