Christmas Day bomb suspect was read Miranda rights nine hours after arrest

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/14/AR2010021404062_pf.html

The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused of attempting to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day was read his Miranda rights nine hours after his arrest, according to a detailed chronology released Sunday by senior administration officials.

The timing of events during the arrest, initial interrogation and medical treatment of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was made available after Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) made statements about the process that administration officials believe are misleading. "It makes no sense to get a guy off an airplane who just tried to blow up the airplane and read him his rights within 50 minutes," Graham said in an interview on Fox News.

Graham is one of several Republicans who have cited the handling of Abdulmutallab as an example of what they see as the administration's faulty response to a terrorist assault on a U.S. airliner. On Feb. 3, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the American people and Congress wanted to know "why an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist fresh from Yemen and caught in the act of an attempt to blow up an airliner was handed over to a lawyer after a 50-minute interview."


Debunked: ‘Christmas day bomber’ read Miranda rights – but not for nine hours
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/debunked-christmas-day-bomber-read-miranda-rights-hours/

[Lasher]

1. More importantly, Abdulmutallab has been cooperating fully since having been read his rights.

And that more directly contradicts this lame GOP talking point. Details here

[hayu_lol]

2. Something is ringing a bell in my mind about this...

the initial interrogation was for information from the suspect. Following this session he was taken to a hospital for treatment. More effort toward gaining information followed by more medical treatment.

Following the treatment, he was back undergoing questioning by Federal experts. The suspect apparently quit answering questions on his own. At that point, representatives of various law enforcement departments decided to read him his Miranda Rights. This was followed, if I remember correctly by his being booked for the crime. To this point, he was a suspect only(legally).

Lawyers here, steer me in the right direction: Once they read him Miranda, they booked him. Isn't that the usual procedure? Booking follows Miranda? Thats my understanding and I may well be wrong. Sometimes, in some circumstances, questions of a suspect are allowed and the suspect is free to answer, or not, as he desires. Once he becomes more than just a 'legal' person of interest, then Miranda is read and he is booked.

In this case, there was no doubt what this guy was or what he had attempted. Sounds like law enforcement followed approved procedure.

[babylonsister]

3. delayed due to deteriorating medical condition...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x183169
Another GOP Talking Point Bites The Dust

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Where does the "50-minute" claim come from? Apparently, officials began to question Abdulmutallab soon after he was taken into custody, but physicians said his condition had deteriorated and that the interrogation would have to be delayed. Five hours later, the questioning began again. Eventually, Abdulmutallab refused to cooperate -- he had been trained not to answer questions -- and at that point, officials made him aware of his Miranda rights.

[Don Caballero]

4. So what?

He tried to kill fellow Americans. He has no rights.

[Paul-w]

5. Re: So what?

I tend to agree for the most part on "our" rights when it comes down to it, but no rights at all?

I don't think he needs to be marandized, but he should still be treated somewhat decently overall. We don't need people beating the crap out of him after all....

[Iggo]

6. What the...? It's a sheep in wolf's clothing!

:rofl:

[spanone]

7. republicans have no trouble using terrorism as a political tool