Any random news article normally prompts wing-nuts to come out and start preaching their shock and outrage if it's something they can use as an attack against the opposing party. In comes the Weekly Standard report that claims that the Obama administration has secretly been mirandizing detainees in Afghanistan.
Well General Petraeus quickly dismissed that report as false while giving his keynote speech this morning at the Center for a New American Security conference.
“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 republican who supplied the information to the Standard was Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan.
When they mirandize a suspect, the first thing they do is warn them that they have the ‘right to remain silent.’ It would seem the last thing we want is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other al-Qaeda terrorist to remain silent. Our focus should be on preventing the next attack, not giving radical jihadists a new tactic to resist interrogation–lawyering up.
Piggybacking on him was Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)
When they mirandize a suspect, the first thing they do is warn them that they have the ‘right to remain silent.’ It would seem the last thing we want is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other al-Qaeda terrorist to remain silent. Our focus should be on preventing the next attack, not giving radical jihadists a new tactic to resist interrogation–lawyering up.
At this point, who you gonna believe, two politicians or a General who is in the middle of it all?
Rodgers and Hoekstra weren't the only republicans jumping in on the report:
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