"'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 mass murder thing is taken care of in the enemy combatant system I proposed by first, ensuring you hold the guy without giving him access to squat and second, when he comes up for review, he just gets kept.

You make a good point. The tribunal that decides if he is a combatant or not and did something serious or not should be able to specify life detention without release.

Personally, I'd let them shoot him, but not on 51% evidence and it's just not worth it to give him access to any information at all.