part. Then the order came in to stop interrogating the Islamic terrorist Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was then read his Miranda rights( remember, this
almost successful Islamic terrorist is NOT an American citizen) and granted
this future martyr the cover of our Constitution. Please recal that just two or
three days into his administration President Obama issued an executive
order that limited all interrogations by the U.S. government to the
techniques authorized in the Army Field Manual. Even in the earliest
days of the Obama administration, the rules of engagement started
changing, and not for the better. This is a really good op-ed and hope you
will take the time to read all of it. Obama is public enemy #1 to this Patriot.
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Michael V. Hayden
We got it wrong in Detroit on Christmas Day. We allowed an enemy combatant the protections of our Constitution before we had adequately interrogated him. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is not "an isolated extremist." He is the tip of the spear of a complex al-Qaeda plot to kill Americans in our homeland.
Flight 253 and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
In the 50 minutes the FBI had to question him, agents reportedly got actionable intelligence. Good. But were there any experts on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the room (other than Abdulmutallab)? Was there anyone intimately familiar with any National Security Agency raw traffic to, from or about the captured terrorist? Did they have a list or photos of suspected recruits?
When questioning its detainees, the CIA routinely turns the information provided over to its experts for verification and recommendations for follow-up. The responses of these experts -- "Press him more on this, he knows the details" or "First time we've heard that" -- helps set up more detailed questioning.
None of that happened in Detroit. In fact, we ensured that it wouldn't. After the first session, the FBI Mirandized Abdulmutallab and -- to preserve a potential prosecution -- sent in a "clean team" of agents who could have no knowledge of what Abdulmutallab had provided before he was given his constitutional warnings. As has been widely reported, Abdulmutallab then exercised his right to remain silent.
In retrospect, the inadvisability of this approach seems self-evident. Perhaps it didn't appear that way on Dec. 25 because we have, over the past year, become acclimated to certain patterns of thought.
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Sure some valuable information was obtained in this one hour chat, but how much more could have be forced from this weasel had we be given more time and the interrogration being done by those familiar with Islamic terrorist and not those who deal with bank robbers and the such. What will it take for those in Washington to wakeup---I guess another full blown successful attack with hundreds of bodies in the streets of an American city.
We can pray and wish that another attack will not be the wake up
call that this country needs.
That said, I am afraid you are
correct as are others who have expressed
the same thought(s).
When dirtbag terrorists like
this are apprehended all
tactics and methods must be available to those who
are conducting the
interrogations. Water
boarding, bugs in box,
whatever it takes to get
these vermin to talk. If
they expire during
interrogation then so
be it. That is one less
mussie terrorist that
we in the west
have to worry about.
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