Top Republican senators urged President Obama on Saturday to hold the suspect captured in the Boston Marathon bombing as a potential enemy combatant -- denying him a government-appointed attorney and other legal rights under the “Law of War” so investigators can learn about other possible attacks.

After his capture Friday, bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights, which essentially state those arrested have a constitutional right to be told information they give to officials can be used against them.

However, the public safety exception that allows suspects to be questioned without being read those rights expires 48 hours after the arrest.

“The events we have seen over the past few days in Boston were an attempt to kill American citizens and terrorize a major American city,” Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; John McCain, Arizona; and Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire, said. “The suspect, based upon his actions, clearly is a good candidate for enemy combatant status. We do not want this suspect to remain silent.”

They were joined in the statement by New York Republican Rep. Peter King.
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President Obama in the immediate aftermath of the bombings declared them an “act of terrorism.” And he vowed after Tsarnaev’s capture Friday to get answers but has yet to say whether the administration will use the combatant status.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/...ombing-suspect/


Obama will do exactly the opposite of what he's supposed to do if he holds true to pattern. Eric Holder will also stick his nose in it.
Count on it!

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Top Republican senators urged President Obama on Saturday to hold the suspect captured in the Boston Marathon bombing as a potential enemy combatant -- denying him a government-appointed attorney and other legal rights under the “Law of War” so investigators can learn about other possible attacks.

After his capture Friday, bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights, which essentially state those arrested have a constitutional right to be told information they give to officials can be used against them.

However, the public safety exception that allows suspects to be questioned without being read those rights expires 48 hours after the arrest.

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They were joined in the statement by New York Republican Rep. Peter King.

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Is this the same Pete King who ran guns for the IRA back in the 70's and 80's and said that civilian casualties/deaths resulting from IRA terrorism were just fine as far as he was concerned?

Um, isn't this guy a U.S citizen. Captured in the United States [well, the People's republic of Massachusetts, but you get the idea], and weren't the targets civilian, not military? I don't see how they could do this, legally [hence my normal preference for one in the back of the head].

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“The events we have seen over the past few days in Boston were an attempt to kill American citizens and terrorize a major American city,” Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; John McCain, Arizona; and Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire, said. “The suspect, based upon his actions, clearly is a good candidate for enemy combatant status. We do not want this suspect to remain silent.”

They were joined in the statement by New York Republican Rep. Peter King.

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OMG they're all RINOs!

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Um, isn't this guy a U.S citizen. Captured in the United States [well, the People's republic of Massachusetts, but you get the idea], ....

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetendeutsches_Freikorps

Sudetendeutsches Freikorps was a paramilitary fifth-columnist organization formed of Czechoslovak ethnic Germans, with pro-Nazi sympathies. They operated in Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1939. It was part of Hitler's successful effort to occupy Czechoslovakia and annex the region known as Sudetenland into the Third Reich.[1]

Members of Freikorps were trained and hosted in Nazi Germany but operated across the border in Czechoslovakia attacking the infrastructure, administrative, police and military buildings and personnel, as well as the pro-government and antifascist civilians. They committed assassinations, robberies and bombing attacks. According to sources they have murdered more than 100 and kidnapped (and deliver to Germany) more than 2000 Czechoslovak personnel or political opponents.

They halted their operations after the Nazis took control of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

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.... and weren't the targets civilian, not military? I don't see how they could do this, legally [hence my normal preference for one in the back of the head].

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Geneva Convention
Article 4

A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:

1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.

2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfill the following conditions:

(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (Violated in this case.)
(c) That of carrying arms openly; (Violated in this case.)
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war. (Violated in this case.)

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The Gop, the stupid party, to hell with this dirt bag, the problem is what about the failure of the FBI and the bull at homeland security. Why were these people here, how did they get here, the mother was caught shoplifting, why was she and her domestic violated son still in the country.