John Cornyn (R-TX): Obama Got 'Lucky' That Times Square Bomber Is Talking

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Cornyn: Obama Got 'Lucky' That Times Square Bomber Is Talking

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/cornyn-obama-got-lucky-th_n_563374.html

First Posted: 05- 4-10 05:40 PM | Updated: 05- 4-10 06:00 PM

Even though the suspected plotter in the Times Square car-bombing attempt is talking to authorities after being read his Miranda rights, Republicans in the Senate aren't giving the Obama White House any slack.

In a steady stream of indictments, top-ranking officials in the GOP said it didn't matter that the Obama Department of Justice was getting information from Faisal Shahzad, the now-detained the Pakistani-born American. The fact that the administration chose to read Miranda rights to the suspect shows a national security policy steeped in naivety and potentially dangerous.

"That is a stroke of good luck," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said of the news that Shahzad was cooperating even after getting his Miranda rights read to him. "What if he had not waived them and just quit talking, said 'I want my lawyer'?"

"Maybe we got lucky and (Shahzad) said I will go ahead and talk to you anyway," said Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). "But you didn't know that when you read the rights. So I stand by what I said -- it is better in these kinds of cases to get the intelligence first and then, if you decide you want to proceed with an Article 3 prosecution, then read the Miranda rights."

[scorpiogirl]

1. Wow! I'm psychic!

I knew some GOPer would say that!

[texastoast]

2. Or maybe the terrorist wants to start a dialog on a human-to-human basis--without torture?

:shrug:

[WeDidIt]

3. Jon Cornyn is a FUCKING TRAITOR TO HIS OATH OF OFFICE

Fuck that fucking traitor assed motherfucker.

[madokie]

4. Cornyn and kyl can go straight to hell.

[malaise]

5. Maj. General Eaton has some advice for ReTHUGS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#36951098

[Richard Steele]

6. Someone should have advised the Repubs of their "right to remain silent" about 8 years ago.

If they'd kept their fool mouths shut, they might not
currently be clinging to vicarious 'significance' via the
TeabagMovement and Sarah Palin cultists.

[eShirl]

7. not luck, but the common sense to let professionals use methods proven effective

rather than the "feel good" (to authoritarians) but counterproductive torture that was the policy under Bush-Cheney

[gratuitous]

8. Following the rule of law just kills them, doesn't it?

For eight years, they sold fear and terror as the keys to the kingdom. My goodness, we couldn't be reading these terrorists their rights! And torture was too good for these malefactors: Worst of the worst and all that (except for the ones we'd scooped up by mistake and held for years). They were going to be these "super" men, capable of withstanding the harshest conditions. And how did we know they didn't know anything? The option to torture quickly became the duty to torture.

Now here we are: Using all the usual law enforcement methods, the Obama administration found this guy within 48 hours, caught him just as he was about to leave the country, and put him in a cell. Within a few hours after that, he's singing like a bird.

And the Republicans can't stand it.

[Old Codger]

9. All of them

Cornyn, maclame, boner, and the rest of that load of republican flotsam, are traitors to their congressional and senate oaths of office. Their citizenship rights should be revoked at the same time they are read their miranda rights... after which they should be tarred and feathered and run out of the country. I am truly ashamed to, in any way, be related to these pieces of drek.

[NutmegYankee]

10. OMFG!!! He's a US Citizen.

It's his Constitutional right.

[DearAbby]

11. Hey asshole, there is more to the Constitution than the 2'nd amendment

They feel they can cherry pick what feels good to them that day. Talk about shredding the constitution.

[PM Martin]

12. So the entire Republican party has gone over the deep end

along with the Cons and the Tories.

[blogslut]

13. Eat crow when you say that, Cowboy!

This is a photo of former Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, awarding Tom Coleman with a "Lawman of the Year" award:



In 1999, Tom Coleman arrested 46 people on drug trafficking charges in the town of Tulia, TX. 39 of those people were black. There was a problem. Tom Coleman was lying through his teeth. No witnesses. No evidence. The majority of these people were convicted on Tom Coleman's word alone.

Fortunately things got turned around. The 35 wrongly convicted citizens were pardoned and released. Tom Coleman was convicted of perjury in 2003.

Again, this is a photo of former Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, awarding Tom Coleman with a "Lawman of the Year" award:



John Cornyn has always been and will always be a complete and utter fool