Battlefield Miranda warnings?
Reuters:
If the Miranda rules are applied to the terrorist it will mean that most of the mass murderers at Gitmo would have to be released and that future terrorist would likely not survive their encounter with our forces on the battlefield. It is impossible to treat the battle space as a crime scene investigation. You can't fight a war in which you are providing lawyers to the enemy to obstruct the war effort.
One benefit from asking this question is that perhaps Justice Kennedy and the liberals on the court will notice what a mistake they have made in giving these terrorist constitutional rights.
A driver for Osama bin Laden was not told of any rights against self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents told the Guantanamo war crimes court on Thursday.Part of the idiocy of the lawfare approach to fighting terrorist is coming to fruition. The interrogation of terrorist is necessary to prevent further acts of terrorism. To tell them they have the right to remain silent and to provide an attorney to make sure they stay silent frustrates the public's need to avoid further terrorist attacks.
"Our policy at the time was not to read Miranda rights," FBI special agent Robert Fuller said in testimony at the U.S. military commission trial of Salim Hamdan on charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism.
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If the Miranda rules are applied to the terrorist it will mean that most of the mass murderers at Gitmo would have to be released and that future terrorist would likely not survive their encounter with our forces on the battlefield. It is impossible to treat the battle space as a crime scene investigation. You can't fight a war in which you are providing lawyers to the enemy to obstruct the war effort.
One benefit from asking this question is that perhaps Justice Kennedy and the liberals on the court will notice what a mistake they have made in giving these terrorist constitutional rights.
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