Wednesday, January 27, 2010

9/11 Panel Heads Criticize The Handling Of The Failed Christmas Day Bomber

9/11 Panel Chiefs Fault Handling Of Bomb Suspect -- Washington Times

Say intel agencies should have been consulted.

The leaders of a commission that investigated failures related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks told a Senate panel Tuesday the Obama administration mishandled the interrogation of the failed Christmas Day airline bomber.

Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, New Jersey Republican, and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat, said U.S. intelligence agencies should have been consulted before the bombing suspect, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was granted constitutional protections under U.S. law, known as Miranda rights, and initially stopped talking to investigators.

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Update: 9/11 Commission head presses Obama on anti-terrorism efforts -- The Hill

My Comment: The 9/11 Commission heads see the US administration repeating history, but no one in the government is bothering to listen to them.

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