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June 10, 2009

Obama: US Constitutional Rights for Terrorists

by @ 3:24 pm. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Law & Justice, Military, Politics, U.S. Constitution, War on Terror

When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative.

“I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.

“The Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today — foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them and they’re reading them their rights — Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan,” writes Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard. 

Rogers, a former FBI special agent and U.S. Army officer, says the Obama administration has not briefed Congress on the new policy. “I was a little surprised to find it taking place when I showed up because we hadn’t been briefed on it, I didn’t know about it. We’re still trying to get to the bottom of it, but it is clearly a part of this new global justice initiative.”

The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will replace a CIA-dominated system of clandestine detentions and interrogations with one built around transparent investigations and prosecutions.

Under the “global justice” initiative, which has been in the works for several months, FBI agents will have a central role in overseas counter-terrorism cases. They will expand their questioning of suspects and evidence-gathering to try to ensure that criminal prosecutions are an option, officials familiar with the effort said.

No uniform, no country, only loyalty to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Sharia Law, Osama bin Land and killing. Obama is slowly, “quietly” taking away the rights of American citizens while providing US Constitutional rights to Jihadists.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are not happy. “When they mirandize a suspect, the first thing they do is warn them that they have the ‘right to remain silent,’” says Representative Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “It would seem the last thing we want is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other al-Qaeda terrorist to remain silent. Our focus should be on preventing the next attack, not giving radical jihadists a new tactic to resist interrogation–lawyering up.”

According to Mike Rogers, that is precisely what some human rights organizations are advising detainees to do. “The International Red Cross, when they go into these detention facilities, has now started telling people — ‘Take the option. You want a lawyer.’”

Rogers adds:

“The problem is you take that guy at three in the morning off of a compound right outside of Kabul where he’s building bomb materials to kill US soldiers, and read him his rights by four, and the Red Cross is saying take the lawyer — you have now created quite a confusion amongst the FBI, the CIA and the United States military. And confusion is the last thing you want in a combat zone.”

Robbing American business, spending money, lying to the public, apologizing for America, rights for terrorists………

This new requirement has turned trained Armed Forces, trained to fight terrorists, and placed them into a “law enforcement” situation and forced them to provide US Constitutional rights to terrorists, non-US citizens.

Troops in combat are not, I repeat NOT, performing a law enforcement mission!!! How will they glean information from a captured enemy combatant that may save US lives when they have to treat him/her like a common criminal?

Barack Hussein Obama, the enemy within. Indeed!

One Response to “Obama: US Constitutional Rights for Terrorists”

  1. Liberally Conservative » Blog Archive » So You Think You Know International Humanitarian Law During Wartime - Take the Test! Says:

    [...] The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has created a quiz designed to address major topics in international humanitarian law. How is international humanitarian law supposed to be carried out during war time? What are common misconceptions? Today’s public discourse on the Arab-Israeli conflict interprets all actions in terms of international law. The administration of Barack Hussein Obama has ordered the Miranda rights for captured terrorists. [...]

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