“The real rumor yesterday is whether our forces were reading Miranda rights to detainees and the answer to that is no,” Petraeus said today.
The Weekly Standard piece, published on the magazine’s Website yesterday, claimed that “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.”
This makes even more sense as conservative b.s. when you remember that Hayes wrote that hagiography of Cheney from a little while back and also the book on the Saddam-Osama connection that didn’t exist.
I should also note that just because the story happens to not be true will not preclude conservatives from bringing it up time and time again, like the Obama birthers, the facts don’t actually matter to these folks.
MORE: NBC has more.
A DOJ spokesman says there’s been no new policy directive.
“There has been no policy change and no blanket instruction issued for FBI agents to Mirandize detainees overseas,” spokesman Matt Miller said. “While there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas, at both Bagram and in other situations, in order to preserve the quality of evidence obtained, there has been no overall policy change with respect to detainees.”
Also: Al Gore said he invented The Internet.
While there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas, at both Bagram and in other situations
NBC just confirmed that it was true, and you printed a quote proving it.
You really aren’t that bright are you?
You really are a stupid person. Yes, the FBI mirandizes suspects abroad on occasion, but there is no secret program to mirandize terror detainees as Hayes “reported”.
there is no secret program to mirandize terror detainees as Hayes “reported”.
That’s not what the rebuttal says: the rebuttal says “there’s been no policy change”, which even those left-wing nuts at National Review point out.
claimed that “the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights
If by “quietly” he means not at all, then, yeah, that’s true.
For 40 years, right-wingers have regarded Miranda warnings as the equivalent of letting criminals go free. This latest hissy fit is just another instance of the dog returning to his excrement.
“..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..”
is to
“..there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas, at both Bagram and in other situations, in order to preserve the quality of evidence obtained..”
as
“..Obama has secretly ordered you to start beating your wife..”
is to
“..there have been times when you have beaten your wife..”
Does this help? I’ve tried to put in a way that you would understand.
And why would you title it with Petraeus, when the article referred to DOJ not DOD?
Just a little something you learned in “Yellow Journalism School”, or did you pick up that technique hanging around Media Matters?
Robinson, If you swapped ‘wife’ for ‘Meat’ in your example, then the understanding might be clearer. Do you live near Craven Arms?