Seems he could answer the question without evasion or producing a soundbite
Isaac Send a noteboard - 18/03/2010 04:12:04 AM
I know most people have a fairly vague understanding of miranda but I'm reasonably sure he could figure out a decent way to answer that without giving a devastating soundbite out, though obviously he didn't think so, and the case could be made that if you can't answer a question without automatically sounding bad then the answer probably is bad. I rarely find 'the public is too stupid to understand' an appealing argument for obfuscation, regardless if it might be true
Anything he might have to say about other cases that parallel bin Laden's has to reasonably be allowed to include the SOB as an example, we can't go around assuming the law covering terrorist X should be different then for him, so if answering it about someone else would be cool but not about bin Laden, because answering it about him would generate a soundbite, then that's the breaks and he just has to take his lumps. Pursuing a policy that's not favored with the public isn't necessarily wrong, but when you are, pretending it's not and you aren't basically is.
Anything he might have to say about other cases that parallel bin Laden's has to reasonably be allowed to include the SOB as an example, we can't go around assuming the law covering terrorist X should be different then for him, so if answering it about someone else would be cool but not about bin Laden, because answering it about him would generate a soundbite, then that's the breaks and he just has to take his lumps. Pursuing a policy that's not favored with the public isn't necessarily wrong, but when you are, pretending it's not and you aren't basically is.
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AG Eric Holder evades questioning
17/03/2010 05:34:40 PM
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Why should he be read miranda rights?
17/03/2010 05:50:29 PM
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Why should location matter when dealing with a borderless threat like al-Qaeda? *NM*
17/03/2010 10:20:08 PM
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You'd rather he walk free on a technicality?
17/03/2010 11:28:30 PM
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18/03/2010 07:14:56 AM
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Last I checked, al-Qaeda isn't a party to the Geneva Convention.
18/03/2010 09:16:15 AM
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That only means they are not entitled to its protections - in other words, they are fair game.
19/03/2010 10:25:50 PM
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Well, I guess it depends whether you want to try him, doesn't it?
19/03/2010 11:34:34 PM
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*shrugs*
17/03/2010 11:10:47 PM
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That doesn't seem very logical
18/03/2010 12:03:21 AM
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That is honest and it wouldn't be "dumb" (I assume you actually mean stupid, rather than mute)
18/03/2010 12:19:58 AM
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It is very possible
18/03/2010 02:12:21 AM
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Re: It is very possible
18/03/2010 02:31:59 AM
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You do remember "I do not recall" Gonzalez right? *NM*
18/03/2010 02:38:48 AM
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Actually not really, I was out of the country for almost his entire tenure
18/03/2010 02:41:13 AM
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Pretty much there was some political firings of Us Attorneys
18/03/2010 02:56:01 AM
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I remember a little of that
18/03/2010 03:16:27 AM
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Gonzales flat out lied to congress
18/03/2010 03:29:14 AM
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Seems he could answer the question without evasion or producing a soundbite
18/03/2010 04:12:04 AM
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I don't think I agree with that.
18/03/2010 02:04:48 PM
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Fair enough
18/03/2010 02:40:42 PM
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You guys are forgetting the intel aspect.
18/03/2010 09:40:53 PM
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do we know how much he actually knows?
18/03/2010 09:49:50 PM
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Kinda hard to find out if he knows anything if he's dead *NM*
18/03/2010 09:56:18 PM
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that was totally not my question
19/03/2010 12:10:06 AM
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Most people include congressmen/women don't understand Miranda rights,most people don't know the Law
18/03/2010 02:08:10 AM
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I can understand why he'd want to evade answering.
18/03/2010 03:23:04 AM
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I can understand why statesman would want to avoid painting himself into a corner.
29/03/2010 02:26:34 PM
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