Liz Cheney: This Administration's "First Instinct Is to Inform the Terrorist That He’s Got the Right to Remain Silent" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 9, 2010, 2:16 PM
Actually, this administration’s first instinct is to deny that radical Islam has declared war on America. Their second instinct is to not use words like jihad, sharia, or Islamic radicalism in their reports. The third instinct is to deny that the terrorism man-caused disaster suspect is an Islamic radical. And, Team Obama’s fourth response is to pamper the little darling and read him his rights.
Thanks to Think Progress for the video:
Liz Cheney on FOX News Sunday this morning:
When the administration captures a terrorist and their first instinct is to inform him that he’s got the right to remain silent, that is exactly the wrong way to win this war. When we capture a terrorist, our first instinct has got to be: How do we understand the networks to which this terrorist is connected? How do we understand where he was trained? How do we understand who the leadership is? The administration is approaching this, and again this morning you had John Brennan saying, “Well, this was one-off because he drove the truck alone.” That doesn’t even make sense, it’s inexplicable. But if you aren’t willing to acknowledge that you’re facing a committed network of terrorists as your enemies, and that it’s radical jihadist Islam, then your response to that is gonna be, by definition, insufficient time and time again.
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pamlinson commented:
I wonder if Juan even believes his own retoric at this point. I know he gets paid to be the opposing view, but even the libs have to have a breaking point.
gus commented:
On Jake Tappers show this morning I saw a libtrard woman laugh because the fireworks the terrorist used couldn’t blow up a watermelon.
The fireworks weren’t the bomb, they were the IGNITION.
A match can blow anything up, but using a match to light DYNAMITE can blow something up.
My point: Libs don’t WANT TO BELIEVE we are up against extreme danger.
NeoKong commented:
Do not click on the Think Progress link unless you want to groan.
The comments there were painful to read.
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davidt commented:
The trouble is that the failure to inform a citizen of his 5th amendment rights will be exploited by the lawyers. How many times have we seen a perp get away scott free that way?
d_fitz commented:
And I have the right to defend my liberty by whatever means necessary to win it back.
pm commented:
The statements on FOX today from Rep. Pete King were blistering.
You can hear him at about the 2:00min mark on this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOp3PHPLCo
Before this terrorist was captured, he said in the last hours of the investigation:
“High administration sources were leaking the most confidential, most classified information — information I’d never heard of in a case of this magnitude…”
“…compromising this investigation, putting lives at risk and very probably caused Shahzad to escape and make it undetected to the airport.”
He said “the troops on the ground in New York were very concerned about it.”
He had alot more to say including that he has no confidence in Eric Holder as Attorney General.
sheik yer\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'mami commented:
Brennan is a closet Muzz.
Juan is a mush head.
The Obumbler is in the enemy camp, and so is Holder and the whole Zero-administration is a bunch of commie subversives who should never been allowed to come near the WH.
The only question is now: what can we do to stop America being destroyed from inside and Israel with it?
John Gargano commented:
Thank God for Liz Cheney’s clear thinking!
Its a sad commentary that she has to define our enemies for the left and outline productive strategies for dealing with them.
America has historically been the target of the have-nots of the world. From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 we have had to endure totally unprovoked attacks.
This will continue. We must never become complacent or believe that we have done something to deserve these attacks. Some people are simply threatened by the accomplishments of America and by the fact that we provide a forum for people to achieve their fullest potential in life. Some people also transfer their frustrations about their own life situations upon us for no reason at all.
There is NOTHING we can do to convince our enemies to like us because they are irrational and one simply cannot bring reason to an irrational thought process!
We must simply do what we need to do to prevail. When it comes to one’s survival, there are no rules. Either we survive or we don’t.
Opaobie commented:
Here’s a suggestion for some changed wording for the “Miranda” statement that is read to the “suspect”:
“You have the right to remain silent”…Bif, Bam, Boom….”OUCH! THAT HURT!!!”…Let the record show the suspect waived his right to remain silent and uttered spontaneous remarks….”OK, Punk, SPILL YOUR GUTS!”
RR commented:
By Brennan’s reasoning, 9/11 was a “19-off” but not evidence of any wider conspiracy.
Melvin Winter commented:
Related parody: Attorney General Holder Defends Mirandizing Gulf Oil Spill http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/05/attorney-general-holder-defends.html
Chisum commented:
Eric Holder gets tied into knots on Meet The Press.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/291656