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Here We Go Again

By Michael Blankenship

The Obama administration said Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights... Read more... Here is the reality of interrogations with those accused of terrorism: "Despite the political furor over reading terrorism suspects their Miranda rights, it is not clear that doing so has had a major impact on recent interrogations. For example, even after Mr. Shahzad was read his rights, he waived them and continued talking. With Mr. Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to light a bomb hidden in his undergarments, the pre-Miranda interrogation lasted until he was taken into surgery for the burns he suffered. Afterward, he did not resume cooperating and was also read his Miranda rights, although the sequence of events is uncertain...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).