Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:08:27 PM
"...do these folks deserve miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter down the block? Of course not."
June 10, 2009
Flashback: Obama Says Detainees Don't "Deserve" Miranda Rights
In a March 2003 interview aired on CBS' "60 Minutes" President Obama said Guantanamo detainees do not "deserve" to be read Miranda rights. Transcript of the exchange available below.
KROFT: Some of it being organized by a few people who were released from Guantanamo.
OBAMA: Well, there is no doubt that we have not done a particularly effective job in sorting rough who are truly dangerous individuals that weve got to make sure are not a threat to us, who are folks that we just swept up. The whole premise of Guantanamo promoted by Vice President Cheney was that, somehow, the American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists. I fundamentally disagree with that. Now, do these folks deserve miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter down the block? Of course not.
From:
"Obama’s justice department is using an old strategy employed by the Bush administration. Their primary argument is that Ex-Guantanamo detainees don’t have any constitutional rights. Even if they did, the brief continues, Rumsfeld and other officers should be immune from prosecution because detainees’ right not to be tortured and to practice their religion without abuse was “not clearly established” at the time of their detention.
The Obama administration supports the earlier decision by the Appeals Court that the ex-detainees do not have constitutional person-hood." http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-guantanamo-detainees-have-no-constitutional-rights/
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'No US rights' for Bagram inmates
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Some 600 so-called enemy combatants are said to be held at Bagram Air Base
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Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge
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'No US rights' for Bagram inmates
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Some 600 so-called enemy combatants are said to be held at Bagram Air Base
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Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge
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'No US rights' for Bagram inmates (BBC News February 21, 2009)
"The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US."