Cheney crawls out from under his rock...again...

Conservative newspaper “The Washington Times” on Monday reported that after the underwear bomber was read his Miranda rights, he cooperated with U.S. authorities to such an extent that “U.S. and allied counterterrorism authorities have launched a global manhunt for English-speaking terrorists trained in Yemen who are planning attacks on the United States.” This manhunt is under way due to information that the underwear bomber “revealed during recent cooperation with the FBI that he met with other English speakers at a terrorist training camp in Yemen.”
What did the FBI interrogators do to earn the scorn and insult they‘re receiving now from conservative politicians? The underwear bomber‘s interrogation has turned out to yield a lot of useful information, but Republicans are still trying desperately to blame the Obama administration for somehow doing this wrong.

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DICK CHENEY, FORMER U.S. VICE PRESIDENT:
I do see, repeatedly, examples that there are key members in the administration, like Eric Holder, for example, the attorney general, who still insists on thinking of terror attacks against the United States as criminal acts as opposed to acts of war.
JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS:
So, you mentioned Eric Holder, the treatment of the Christmas Day underwear bomber. How do you think that case should have been dealt with?
CHENEY: I think the proper way to deal with it would have been to treat him as an enemy combatant. I think that was the right way to go.

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Of course, that isn‘t at all the way that things DID go when you were vice president of the United States and making decisions about these things, Dick.

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KARL: So, was it a mistake when your administration took on the Richard Reid case? This is very similar and this was somebody that was trying to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb. And he was, within five minutes of getting taken off that plane, read his Miranda rights, four times, in fact, in 48 hours, and tried through the civilian system. Was that a mistake?
CHENEY: Well, we could have put him into military custody. I don‘t question that.

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You could have put him into military custody, but you did not. You could have and you didn‘t.
The Republican effort to attack President Obama on the basis of the underpants bomber, unlike the underpants bomb itself, appears to be blowing up. Say what you will about Dick Cheney, he‘s generally pretty skilled at making political attacks out of national security issues, but this time, on this one, he is all tied up in knots.
The attempted Republican talking point on the underpants bomber is that it‘s an outrage that this would-be bomber was read his Miranda rights and treated as a criminal:

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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: And is reading Miranda rights to terrorists any way to fight a war?
SEN. ORRIN HATCH (R), UTAH: Some of us have been so upset about it that they immunized him with the Miranda rule.
RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: You do not—you do not go in and interrupt it with Miranda warnings.
REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK: We don‘t have to give Miranda warnings up-front.
SEN. KIT BOND (R), MISSOURI: Mirandizing a terrorist like Abdulmutallab is absolutely ridiculous.
I don‘t know what purpose there was in mirandizing him.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), KENTUCKY, MINORITY LEADER: The administration seems to have lost sight of this essential requirement for national security out of a preoccupation, a preoccupation, with reading the Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R), MINNESOTA: He should not have been given his Miranda warnings. This should not have been a mirandized situation. You don‘t mirandize!

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You know the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, who also failed when he ALSO tried to detonate PETN when he was ALSO aboard a U.S.-bound airliner after ALSO being trained and directed by al Qaeda, Richard Reid was ALSO arrested in the U.S. as a civilian criminal. And he was ALSO read his Miranda rights. Four times.
And what was wrong with that? Well, certainl

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Yeah, Mike, I got a kick out of that one! It's a pretty pathetic effort, given the facts are out there to prove how many were tried, how many are in jail, etc. Darth doesn't give a shit what he says anymore; the ignorant on the right eat it up, I think everyone else knows better by now, given the publicity it's had.

Truly ridiculous...desperate much y'think?

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