My guess is that Abdulmuttalab would not have been a candidate for the waterboard under Darth Cheney. However, if Team Obama had put him into the military system as an enemy combatant he would not have been allowed to lawyer up, we wouldn’t be reading about how his lawyer might agree to let him cooperate, and he would be subject to military style interrogation without a lawyer even if other enhanced techniques were not employed.
That suggests an interesting question – do terrorist-coddling liberal elites really believe that prisoners provide just as much (or as little) information whether we observe their rights under US criminal procedures or their rights as detainees of the US military? Do terrorist-coddling liberal elites really believe that all these Miranda warnings and provision of access to lawyers really doesn’t encourage anyone to keep anyone quiet?
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