Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is the alleged terrorist behind the failed attempt to bomb a passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas Day. Picture: EPALieberman Rips FBI On Miranda Rights -- Politico
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is joining Republicans in ripping the FBI for reading Miranda rights to the would-be airline bomber, saying the administration made a mistake and should transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to military custody.
“We write to urge the administration to immediately transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a foreign terrorist, to the Department of Defense to be held as an unprivileged enemy belligerent (UEB) and questioned and charged accordingly,” said Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday. Ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also signed the letter.
Two dozen other Republicans signed a similar letter earlier this month.
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Update #1: Senators urge bomb suspect face military charges -- Reuters
Update #2: Senators Urge Administration to Transfer Alleged Bomber to Military Custody -- FOX News
Update #3: Senators rebel over treating Detroit airline terrorist as a civilian -- Washington Examiner
My Comment: You do not take a terror suspect with ties to Al Qaeda, praised by Osama Bin Laden himself, and who was trained to commit mass murder .... and you then read him his Miranda rights. But in the universe of the present US administration ..... talk of "war on terror", and using military/intelligence assets to go after Al Qaeda groups and its leaders is a direction that no one in the US Government wants to take right now .... let alone ponder on why it should be done. Hence the Miranda rights and a few drone strikes in the mountains of Pakistan.
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