Salim Ahmed Hamdan, second from left, appears with appointed council Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, third from left, during a preliminary hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. 24, 2004. Getty ImagesFrom Reuters:
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, July 24 (Reuters) - A 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.
"Our policy at the time was not to read Miranda rights," FBI special agent Robert Fuller said in testimony at the U.S. military commission trial of Salim Hamdan on charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism.
Fuller was referring to the Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1966, which held that potential criminal suspects in custody must be informed of rights to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
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My Comment: I am all for lawyers being with American forces on the front line, in foxholes, in outposts on the Pakistani border, on missions hunting down Al Qaeda terror teams, with snipers hidden for days in their hiding places, helping bomb disposal units, assisting wounded soldiers who got wounded because of legal rules of engagement, eating only K-rations while with the troops, not bathing and and sleeping outside for weeks, .... etc. etc. etc.
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