"'Serious mistake' if car bombing suspect was Mirandized"

[unixronin]

So says John McCain of the attempted Times Square carbomber.  Because then we'd have to prosecute him through the criminal justice system and he'll have, like, rights and stuff, instead of treating him as an "enemy combatant".  Because we've just gotten SO MUCH vitally important intelligence out of all the "detainees" we've been storing indefinitely at Guantanamo.

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[house-pundit.livejournal.com]

The point here is that the big risk in a civilian trial is the security risk of the government having to release evidence to the defendant's lawyers and thus to the defendant, and the defendant being able to face his accuser in a court of law and hear what the government has as evidence against him.

That crap really is vitally dangerous to national security. But somebody is deciding, now, if someone picked up is an enemy combatant or not. Or if they can be let go. This just formalizes that process in a way that dumps people who clearly should be in the civilian justice system back into it.