tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200604492659322760.post5248239452569835584..comments2023-06-02T09:14:41.569-07:00Comments on Obama News: Facts Hinder Republican Smear TacticsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200604492659322760.post-59699997917006279742010-02-08T07:50:24.763-08:002010-02-08T07:50:24.763-08:00Republicans have criticized the decision to charge...Republicans have criticized the decision to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the Christmas Day plot as a civilian and, after a short period of interrogation, read him his Miranda rights. Mr. Brennan said Sunday that he spoke with four Republicans on Christmas night and told them that Mr. Abdulmutallab “was in F.B.I. custody” and cooperating. <br /><br />Mr. Brennan said the Republicans, Senators Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Christopher Bond of Missouri, and Representatives John A. Boehner of Ohio and Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, should have understood that “F.B.I. custody” meant reading Miranda rights in a civilian process.<br /><br />“None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point,” Mr. Brennan said. “They didn’t say, ‘Is he going into military custody?’ ‘Is he going to be Mirandized?’ ”<br /><br />Spokesmen for the four Republicans said Sunday that the conversations with Mr. Brennan had been brief and went into no detail. They also noted that the nation’s top intelligence, homeland security and counterterrorism officials were not consulted before the decision to treat Mr. Abdulmutallab as a civilian defendant.<br /><br />“Brennan never told me of any plans to Mirandize the Christmas Day bomber,” Mr. Bond said in a statement. “If he had, I would have told him the administration was making a mistake.”<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08terror.html?th&emc=thJo Ann Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02235312618114583832noreply@blogger.com