Cornyn: Obama Got 'Lucky' That Times Square Bomber Is Talking

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Source: Hurrington Post

"That is a stroke of good luck," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said of the news that Shahzad was cooperating even after getting his Miranda rights read to him. "What if he had not waived them and just quit talking, said 'I want my lawyer'?"

"Maybe we got lucky and said I will go ahead and talk to you anyway," said Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). "But you didn't know that when you read the rights. So I stand by what I said -- it is better in these kinds of cases to get the intelligence first and then, if you decide you want to proceed with an Article 3 prosecution, then read the Miranda rights."


And DOJ officials say that the administration questioned Shahzad before reading him his Miranda rights -- the exact procedure that Kyl advocated. In the end, if the department wants to build a case against the suspected Times Square bomber, its hands are largely tied when it comes to what it can or cannot do both during interrogation and detainment. The Department of Justice under John Ashcroft understood this too. Which is why they not only read Miranda rights to suspected terrorists but publicly touted the convictions they were able to secure in criminal court settings.


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