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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.



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Not to mention Miranda is crap anyway. - 19/03/2010 10:18:46 PM 480 Views
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You guys are forgetting the intel aspect. - 18/03/2010 09:40:53 PM 507 Views
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that was totally not my question - 19/03/2010 12:10:06 AM 492 Views
So in sum you are saying - 19/03/2010 12:20:27 AM 491 Views
LOL, it wasn't exactly clear - 19/03/2010 01:42:18 AM 480 Views
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I can understand why he'd want to evade answering. - 18/03/2010 03:23:04 AM 555 Views

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