Sunday, May 09, 2010

Bye Bye, Miranda

Appearing on the Sunday shows for the first time today, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama Administration wants to change the Miranda rule -- the requirement that police inform suspects of their right to remain silent and to a lawyer before interrogation -- in terrorism cases to "something that is flexible and is more consistent with the threat that we now face."

Holder said on Meet The Press that the Administration wants to work with Congress to make the public safety exception to Miranda -- in which information from questioning before reading the Miranda warning can be admitted in court, in certain situations in which public safety is a concern -- "more flexible."

  TPM

Somewhere in the future – maybe not so far away – someone is going to have to fight and die for American civil liberties all over again.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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