http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-Top-GOP-leaders-didnt-object-to-reading-Abdulmutallab-his-rights-83756337.html
What is truth? For a while we could say with some certainty that truths were usually limited to science or math. There are universal laws that cannot be disputed such as gravity and one plus one will always equal two. Outside these areas truth can be a slippery thing and often it goes to the victors in any dispute, war or conquest. Now, when it comes to politics, there is no truth outside the truth that is accepted by the public. Knowing this is key because it allows leaders to play with the truth in order to manipulate the citizenry. For example, Obama claims the failed policies of the last eight years is the reason he has to spend money like a drunken sailor. The statement on its face is so full of factual errors trying to pick it apart is a daunting task, but there are a number of people who are willing to accept it as fact and thus it is fact.
When the Christmas day bomber Abdulmutallab was captured, he was subject to a pre-Miranda interview, then for some reason, still unknown, he was Mirandized. Since then Obama’s guys have been taking it in the shorts every day. It’s not that they did something wrong in the sense that their policy now states that terrorists are criminals and all criminals caught inside the U.S. automatically get rights. I know, crazy stuff, but that is liberals for you. The wrong part is that they have the policy in the first place. In the past month they have bounced from “we got all we needed in the fifty minute interview” to “we are going to work out a deal with his lawyers so he will cooperate and nothing will be lost” to “Bush did it too” to “he is now talking and we are getting great information” to now “Waaahhh, we told the Republicans and they didn’t say it was a bad idea at the time!” Here is the quote-
“BRENNAN: On Christmas night, I called a number of senior members of Congress. I spoke to Senators McConnell and Bond, I spoke to Representatives Boehner and Hoekstra. I explained to them that he was in FBI custody, that Mr. Abdulmutallab was in fact talking, that he was cooperating at that point. They knew that in FBI custody means that there’s a process that you follow, as far as Mirandizing and presenting him in front of a magistrate. None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point. They didn’t say, Is he going into military custody? Is he going to be Mirandized? They were very appreciative of the information. We told them we would keep them informed, and that’s what we did. So there’s been quite a bit of an outcry after the fact, where again, I’m just very concerned on behalf of the counterterrorism professionals throughout our government, that politicians continue to make this a political football and are using it for whatever political or partisan purposes.”
As we like to say in the law enforcement field- “Just shut up while you’re ahead. If you keep this up, what started out as a confession to a theft will end up getting you convicted for murder!” The problem with the Obama policy is it is a bad policy and it cannot be defended. The way you know if you have a liberal by the short hairs is when they start complaining about the politics of something or how partisan you are. Translated, it means “please get your knee out of my neck, you’re choking me.”
Does it matter that the Republicans got a courtesy call from Obama’s crew? If you buy the premise that the Obama people had no real concept how detailed the plot was at the time they decided to stop talking to the kid, then how can they argue the Republicans should have made a more informed decision?
If the Obama administration claims it can handle any problem that comes along, how can they punt the issue to the Republicans, who are not in charge? Either you are in charge or you’re not. Decide. If you are and you screw up, then man up. The ability to take responsibility is also a weakness in the character of most liberals. The reason is that liberals, by their very mindset, can’t make mistakes because they are superior to the rest of us. So screwing up is almost impossible in their minds. They will push this around attempting to put it on someone else until either they run out of candidates or we all just move along and the mistake is cemented into the minds of the voters. I think we have reached that point, but the liberals also believe they can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. So they will try until they rub it raw, adding another layer to “why we dislike the liberal agenda.”