Petraeus: Stephen Hayes Weekly Standard Story On Miranda For Detainees Isn’t True

12:08 pm EST June 11th, 2009 | News | 8 Comments

Shocker.

“The real rumor yesterday is whether our forces were reading Miranda rights to detainees and the answer to that is no,” Petraeus said today.

stephen hayesThe 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.”

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8 Responses to “Petraeus: Stephen Hayes Weekly Standard Story On Miranda For Detainees Isn’t True”

  1. S. Hayes says:
    June 11, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Also: Al Gore said he invented The Internet.

  2. conservo says:
    June 11, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    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?

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    June 11, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    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”.

  4. SaveFarris says:
    June 11, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    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.

  5. Duros62 says:
    June 11, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    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.

  6. Tyro says:
    June 11, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    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.

  7. John C. Robinson of the Shropshire Robinsons says:
    June 11, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    “..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.

  8. bryan says:
    June 11, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    Robinson, If you swapped ‘wife’ for ‘Meat’ in your example, then the understanding might be clearer. Do you live near Craven Arms?