Holder on Osama: We’ll Be Reading Miranda Rights to His Corpse -- Wall Street Journal
Well, we still don’t know the details on the trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 mastermind, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has a pretty good idea of what the Justice Department would do to Osama bin Laden were U.S. forces to find him: not all that much, because bin Laden won’t be captured. He’ll be killed.
That’s what Holder told Congress on Tuesday. Click here for the WaPo article; here for the National Law Journal article.
In exchanges with Republicans on the a House budget subcommittee that the WaPo called “testy” (big surprise there, eh?), Holder predicted that at the end of the day “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden,” not to bin Laden as a prisoner.
During the hearing, Holder also made clear that he still doesn’t know what’s to become of KSM.
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