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Attorney General Eric Holder: Terrorists in court “have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer,” the attorney general said. “It doesn’t mean that they’re going to be coddled, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be treated with kid gloves.”
The comparison to convicted killer Manson angered Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas: “My constituents and I just have a deep-seated and profound philosophical difference with the Obama administration,”
Holder: “Let’s deal with reality,” “The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.”
Holder also said: “The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us.”
Attorney General Eric Holder had a testy exchange with House Republicans today over how to treat captured terrorists and/or Osama Bin Laden himself.
quotes via rawstory
CNN Poll: Should 56% Should not 43%
The poll finds that a big majority, 65%, supports the decision to Mirandize the Christmas bomb plotter. But it gets better. The public also thinks all terror suspects should be Mirandized as a matter of policy:
As you know, the police and FBI agents always inform suspects of their constitutional right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present during any questioning. Do you think law enforcement officials should or should not follow this practice for people who are suspected of attempting to commit an act of terrorism?
