Yesterday on FOX News Sunday White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs defended the Administration’s decision to grant Christmas undie-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent and provide him with a court-appointed lawyer. Abdulmutallab was interrogated for only 50 minutes before he was appointed a lawyer.
The Washington Examiner reported:
On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked White House spokesman Robert Gibbs whether President Obama was informed of the decision to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights before or after it was done. Gibbs avoided the question, saying, “That decision was made by the Justice Department and the FBI, with experienced FBI interrogators.” Gibbs stressed that “Abdulmutallab was interrogated and valuable intelligence was gotten as a result of that interrogation.”
Wallace pressed. “But we now find out he was interrogated for 50 minutes,” he said to Gibbs. “When they came back, he was read his Miranda rights and he clammed up.”
“No,” Gibbs answered. “Again, he was interrogated. Valuable intelligence was gotten based on those interrogations. And I think the Department of Justice and the — made the right decision, as did those FBI agents.”
“Let me just press one last question,” Wallace said. “You really don’t think that if you’d interrogated him longer that you might have gotten more information, since we now know that Al Qaeda in Yemen — ”
“Well, FBI interrogators believe they got valuable intelligence and were able to get all that they could out of him,” Gibbs said.
“All they could?” Wallace asked.
“Yeah,” Gibbs said.
January 25th, 2010 | 8:08 am | #1
Welcome to the Orwellian democrat worldview.
January 25th, 2010 | 8:18 am | #2
This kind of Stupid stuff what cause people to die.A,G. Holden need to be fired.Him and his Lawyer friend just want to rip of the tax payer.He need to do his job and go after the “black Panter and Acorns.
January 25th, 2010 | 8:29 am | #3
Before long, they’ll blame this screw-up on Bush/Cheney……..
January 25th, 2010 | 8:30 am | #4
It might be wrong to imagine this administration would be saddened (behind closed doors) if Americans died.
Let us not forget John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet
http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/
January 25th, 2010 | 8:35 am | #5
I get grilled longer than 50 minutes at my year end review at work every December…..WTF??
January 25th, 2010 | 8:40 am | #6
Drudge has a report that a recent Bin Laden message contains an indicator of an attack in the planning or operational phase. An unusually high number of individuals on the US no-ly list has been caught attempting to board planes for the United States.
My question: where the (bleep) is the Obama White House on this? If this tool, Abdulmutallab, was a test of the nations defenses and Obama just gave up any attempt to gain intelligence about an attack in progress than he has to go. And everyone of his staff.
Holder, Clinton, Neopolitano and all the rest are blinded by a warped ideological prism and unable to see beyond the narrative of their internal bias.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100124/ts_alt_afp/attacksusnigeriabinladenthreat_20100124182004
January 25th, 2010 | 8:50 am | #7
“all they could..” and Gibbs said:” yeah.”These pathogens spend more time on Blaming Bush than protecting our Nation.
January 25th, 2010 | 9:09 am | #8
Obama seems a lot more willing to fight Americans than fight America’s enemies.
January 25th, 2010 | 9:10 am | #9
I get a very queasy feeling that Hussein and his henchmen actually want a large-scale terror attack that kills many Americans. Notice how with Ft. Hood in which Americans were murdered for the jihad and the underwear bomber, Hussein had very delayed, suppressed responses (“don’t jump to conclusions”, continuing to play golf). He seemed to be distressed and annoyed that the plane bomber was stopped. A massive attack will give him and cronies like Holder a chance to declare martial law. He wants to destroy the entire democratic process, including elections.
Please, everyone, be vigilant and teach your children, families and friends to report boxes and abandoned bags, suspicious-looking individuals, things that look very out of place (someone loitering in crowded or sensitive places; someone wearing bulky clothing where they shouldn’t).
Communities should ask their police department to find the budget for an armed guard to check the bags of everyone entering a shopping mall. You may not like this, but it will save lives. Look for suspicious packages and scan the faces and behavior of people around you on buses and trains. Once a bus bombing happens, it’s hard to feel safe again.
Believe me, I know very well what I’m talking about. I lived through years of the nightmare of the jihad terror of suicide bombers and raised a family during it – and the threat is still there.
January 25th, 2010 | 9:11 am | #10
It would be such a relief if, at the SOFTU address, Obama stood up there and told us he never claimed he would “defend and protect” the USA (useless constitutional phrases). He promised to CHANGE the USA, and that is what he is delivering. Almost with a twilight zone feeling.
January 25th, 2010 | 9:16 am | #11
FBI director Robert Mueller, National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said they were not consulted about the decision to handle Abdulmutallab in the criminal courts.
This is leading to Attorney General Eric Holder, who also won’t disclose the involvement of current Justice Department lawyers defending terrorists prior to their joining the Justice Department.
It was Holder who made the decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a criminal trial in New York. It is Holder who has expressed his desire to grant full American constitutional rights to foreign terrorists. It is Holder who is leading the administration’s sputtering effort to move some Guantanamo inmates to the United States. And it is Holder who is apparently cutting other parts of the government out of crucial terrorism decisions like the treatment of Abdulmutallab.
“These days, all roads lead to the attorney general,” says one well-placed Republican source in the Senate. “They seem to have aggregated quite a bit of power inside Main Justice.” The problem is, the Holder Justice Department appears to be handling terrorism issues from a defense-attorney perspective, and doing so without the input of the government’s other terrorism-fighting agencies.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/On-bombing-suspect_-tough-questions-for-Eric-Holder-82305397.html#ixzz0dda0vdEs
January 25th, 2010 | 9:17 am | #12
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January 25th, 2010 | 9:20 am | #13
This is the HUGEST story of the year…no of the DECADE… ALL dems need to be labeled SOFT ON TERROR…terrorists are to be protected….the AMERICAN people…..not so much?!
HUGE, HUGE, HUGE…
January 25th, 2010 | 9:34 am | #14
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January 25th, 2010 | 9:36 am | #15
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January 25th, 2010 | 9:44 am | #16
America! Duh Yeah! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheZc–xRm4
January 25th, 2010 | 9:48 am | #17
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January 25th, 2010 | 10:02 am | #18
This is not the interrogation you are looking for.
January 25th, 2010 | 10:06 am | #19
1 license plate maker job created or saved.
50 Public defender jobs created or saved.
12,000 journalist jobs created or saved.
See how this works.
January 25th, 2010 | 10:35 am | #20
Given the climate the Obama administration is creating for our intelligence agencies, it is conceivable that the decision to read Mirand rights was made on site. Our guys are going to make decisions that will place them in the least possible danger of being prosecuted.
Now seeing that no one in the administration is stepping up to take responsibility, and if this is a plausible scenario, the agents made the correct choice. For them. And I agree with it and would make the same choice given the evolving climate.
If so, this would be the fruits of the Obama administration’s terrorist-friendly policies.
January 25th, 2010 | 11:21 am | #21
[I]t is conceivable that the decision to read Miranda rights was made on site.
Conceivable, yes; but how likely is it that no one on the scene called a higher-up for instructions??? And if they did call a higher-up, then who did they call, who did that person call, and so on?
Bottom line is I don’t see any way that the chain of phone calls could have stopped anywhere short of the top. This decision had to have been made by Eric “Defense Counsel to the Terrorists” Holder himself.
January 25th, 2010 | 12:09 pm | #22
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January 25th, 2010 | 12:11 pm | #23
Seeing their exchange now in print, it jumps out at me that Gibbs answers Wallace’s first question: When did Obama know?
In fact, he went beyond his first dodge, with this,
“And I think the Department of Justice and the — made the right decision, as did those FBI agents.”
Who did he stop short of making complicit? I’d bet Barack Hussein Obama. He wasn’t merely informed of the decision made by the DOJ and the FBI, he *made* the decision.
January 25th, 2010 | 12:12 pm | #24
OK. You’re the first government agent on the scene. If you’re doing your job, you need to know if there are others on the plane with the same objective or if there are other explosive devices on the plane. (Remember, our friends love to draw in a crowd and then let the second, more powerful device rip.)
Now, you also know that CIA agnets (and others) might be prosecuted for interrogating people in this situation. You also know that some of the main people behind 9/11 are going to be tried in civilian court in New York. Be hinest now, what would you do if you want to keep your job and stay out of jail?
We are being led by fools!
January 25th, 2010 | 12:53 pm | #25
This is a hugh intelligence failure and undermines national security. You have to ask yourself why the Obama administration wants to protect the terrorists, and that’s what this boils down to. It was a key in the election of Scott Brown and will be a key to other Democrat defeats.
January 25th, 2010 | 2:06 pm | #26
I’m surprised they got as much as an hour. Once mirandized I’m sure this guy knew enough about our system of laws to just shut up. Maybe the questions had more to do with setting up meals that complied with halal restrictions. This would be a joke ( and not a good one ) if this all weren’t so damn serious and potentially catastrophic.
January 25th, 2010 | 3:07 pm | #27
Obama is protecting his brethren – he protected Hasan, the Muslim, who slaughtered military men and women and wounded many others, and he is protecting a Muslim suicide bomber on an airplane…..just to name two. Two Muslim men who attacked Americans and both had contact with al Queda.
It is unbelievable that the underwear bomber, not even a citizen of the United States, is being given the same rights of a U.S. citizen and not an alien Islamic terrorist.
Only the blind can’t see what is going on.
January 25th, 2010 | 3:55 pm | #28
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January 25th, 2010 | 9:47 pm | #30
The entire Obama administration should be put on trial in a court much like of the Nuremburg trials for teason and lending aid and comfort to the enemy. They’re a disgrace.
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