Bush Admin Read Shoe Bomber Miranda Rights

3:42 pm EST February 2nd, 2010 | Terrorism | 5 Comments

Another GOP talking point on terror has been rendered inoperative

Republicans may have a hard time keeping up their talking point about how reading Miranda rights to the Christmas Day bomber represented a dangerous new direction under President Barack Obama.

It turns out that that back in December 2001, Richard Reid — the ‘shoe bomber’ — was read or reminded of his Miranda rights four times in two days, beginning five minutes after being taken into custody.

Furthermore, the Bush administration specifically rejected the idea of a military tribunal — another step that Republicans have argued should have been taken in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day and was read his rights after 50 minutes of FBI questioning.

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5 Responses to “Bush Admin Read Shoe Bomber Miranda Rights”

  1. Marco says:
    February 2, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    But, but, but…..

  2. jr says:
    February 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    The new Beckian narrative is that Bush was a “progressive”

  3. Sean D. Martin says:
    February 2, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    Another GOP talking point on terror has been rendered inoperative

    You say that as if it’s going to stop them from continuing to use it anyway.

  4. bikelib says:
    February 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    Most of them will never be made aware of it; and the ones that are aware of it (including our resident trolls) will ignore, rationalize, or trot the standard “but-some-Democrat-did-something-that-I-will-present-as-similar-so-there!”. Bank it.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    February 2, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    Well no, we know that facts hurt their pea-brains.