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NYT: "The Threat to Miranda"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In today's NYTimes: The Threat to Miranda: For nearly nine years, the threat of international terrorism has fueled a government jackhammer, cutting away at long-established protections of civil liberties. It has been used to justify warrantless wiretapping, an expansion of the state secrets privilege in federal lawsuits, the use of torture, and the indefinite detention of people labeled enemy combatants. None of these actions were necessary to fight terrorism, and neither is a dubious Obama administration proposal to loosen the Miranda rules when questioning terror suspects and to delay presenting suspects to a judge.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 15, 2010 (boomark / email).