Miranda Rights for High-Level "Combatants"

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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

It sounds like this would actually be a wise move... especially with high level combatants.

We are America... and we do have a judicial system that has rules to abide by.

If the soldiers read them their miranda rights then we have now ensured that the technicality of ensuring they were properly mirandized has been taken care of. People have been released because they were not properly mirandized.

Does it not seem prudent to ensure that this is made a firm part of policy so that there is one less technicality that a true high level combatant might get released on?

Doesn't that just mess up military tactics? The articles states and I agree -

Rogers adds: “The problem is you take that guy at three in the morning off of a compound right outside of Kabul where he’s building bomb materials to kill US soldiers, and read him his rights by four, and the Red Cross is saying take the lawyer – you have now created quite a confusion amongst the FBI, the CIA and the United States military. And confusion is the last thing you want in a combat zone.”

One thing is clear, though. A detainee who is not talking cannot provide information about future attacks. Had Khalid Sheikh Mohammad had a lawyer, Tenet wrote, “I am confident that we would have obtained none of the information he had in his head about imminent threats against the American people.”