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THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we?d get an Attorney General who?d want to curtail Miranda?

By Glenn Reynolds

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d get an Attorney General who’d want to curtail Miranda rights. And they were right!

Attorney General Eric Holder said that Congress should ?give serious consideration? to updating the Miranda warning which requires law enforcement officials to inform suspects of their rights ? including the right to remain silent.

In an interview on ?This Week,? Holder said that the U.S. needs to exam whether the current rules regarding Miranda warnings give law enforcement agents the ?necessary flexibility? when dealing with terrorism cases.

Ah, remember all that talk about the “lawless Bush Administration” trampling civil rights, and the fierce moral urgency of change? Well, if you believed that stuff when they were peddling it. . . hey, rube!

Meanwhile, Christopher Fountain writes: “If only we had elected Obama, we wouldn?t have this travesty of justice.”

I don’t think it’s going over well: “Put George W. Bush in blackface and what do you get? Evidently, Barack H. Obama. Why not? Obama and his team have sold out on Iraq, Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, Gitmo, military tribunals, health care reform, financial reform, DADT and offshore drilling, so what’s the big deal about throwing Miranda into the pile? And by the way, what is the ‘new threat’ Holder is talking about?”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).