Your points are taken. That said, Shahzad is a US citizen who committed a crime on US territory, and should be tried under US law, not buried in a "detention" system of questionable legality that might get around to actually trying him for something five or ten years from now. The entire initial statement from McCain is absurd; there is no way in which reading Shahzad his Miranda rights can weaken the ability to prosecute him or to obtain any useful intelligence from him. (Not that I consider the latter at all probable. He's too small a fish, for one thing.)
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