Exclusive: Christmas Bomber Babysat by CBP Police, Whisked Away to Hospital for Treatment After Terror Attempt

The Christmas Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was babysat by CBP police and whisked away immediately to the hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center's burn unit after his terror attempt. These were the first, official (mis)judgments of the government's response (if you can call it that) to the Christmas Bomber's terror attack, in what has now been revealed to be a continuous series of failures. You know, as opposed to more appropriate actions that more decisive leadership would see happen, such as an immediate turnover to military custody and intense interrogation. You know, the sort of thing that actually saves lives and insures as much intelligence as possible is gleaned from the terrorist.

In an exclusive interview with the AP-using, however, anonymous law enforcement sources (so be wary of doubtfulness)-US officials detailed the specifics of Christmas Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's arrest at Detroit Metro Airport.

Abdulmutallab was "badly burned and bleeding" and given to Customs and Border Protection police after he was stripped bare and restrained by the crew and passengers of the flight. However, what should really and instantly startle any reader who's serious about homeland security is that the first action these cops undertook after receiving Abdulmutallab was to-I kid you not, though at this point I may well wish I was-bring him to a hospital courtesy of an ambulance crew. The cops-clearly not equipped to handle a proper response to a terror attempt since they're not the military-were more concerned with his well-being than with...oh, I don't know...maybe handing him over to the military for interrogation to make sure every bit of intelligence is extracted from him!!

Once at the hospital, not only is Mr. Wannabe-terrorist given an actual guard consisting of CBP officers, but he's also spilling, apparently, all kinds of information concerning his terror attempt, yet no qualified interrogator/intel-gatherer is there because it's the cops, and they've decided to take him to the hospital instead! Wonderful...just wonderful! Another very important note of fact here is that even if qualified officials were there, because this whole "response" was maltreated as a domestic law enforcement matter, there would actually be legal problems for the prosecutor who would theoretically want to bring charges against Abdulmutallab. Because what Abdulmutallab spilled was information obtained while getting medical treatment, it could actually invalidate the admissibility of the information...at least according to some judges.

Finally, at about 2:15 PM, the Johnny-come-latelys at the FBI's Detroit bureau come to the hospital; waiting another hour or so (you know, it's never polite to interrupt terrorists with questioning when they're getting their medical treatment, darn it!!) until 3:30 PM, they then begin to ask Abdulmutallab some questions.

This "interview" lasted for about 50 minutes, and it's noteworthy to highlight that during this period, the FBI agents failed to give him his already undue Miranda rights. Good move, you opine? Terrorists don't deserve said Miranda rights after all, right? In this case, however, failing to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights would actually be counterproductive because as a criminal suspect in a law enforcement case, he's technically entitled to them. The overall point is that the 50 minutes of questioning can be basically rendered totally useless as there's a real jeopardy now that some judge would rule his statements inadmissible due to failure to have his Miranda warning. All this complicated drama could've been avoided, however, if the Obama Administration had just continued the Bush policy of treating terrorists like enemy combatants and recognizing that this is war, doggone it!

Confirming this system of thought, FBI bosses in Washington decided to withdraw this first team of FBI agents and send in a-I kid you not-so-called "clean team" to essentially try to erase the errancy of the first team's failure to provide Abdulmutallab with Miranda rights. Before that, though, Abdulmutallab was again, unduly, treated with kid gloves by the first team who actually ended their interview with him early so he could rest and have the effects of medication wear off! Again, what's with all this coddling of a terrorist who just tried to mass-murder hundreds of people?!

Despite the machinations of the FBI, all was for naught as when the second FBI team finally told Abdulmutallab about the Miranda rights, he naturally took them and stopped chatting and spilling information.

The moral of the story is that Abdulmutallab should never have been incorrectly treated as though he was a mere criminal suspect. He should've been handed over to the military immediately and interrogated, not treated like a little baby-waby who needed his little burns in his groin area tended to! Under the Obama Administration, terrorists are treated with kid gloves like this sorry shame of an episode proves, all because the Obama Administration refused to follow the successful, Bush standard of treating terrorists like enemy combatants. Remember when, under Bush, terrorists actually were scared, terror plots were actually foiled, and terrorists knew they would be treated as enemy combatants? I sure miss those days of a Republican president who was morally clear in the War on Terror.

To send Marc questions, praise or criticism, you can email him at marc_schenker@telus.net

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Sources:

Devlin Barrett, AP Exclusive: The Christmas attack interrogation, AP

Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism, Wikipedia

Ann Coulter, Bush 7, Terrorists 0, Human Events