Posted by
Andrews on Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:36:05 PM
When I said
Boumedine would start lawyers demanding Miranda warnings, warrants and other traditional criminal procedures for people caught in battle, I was told
I was overreacting and reading into
Boumedine.
Well, guess what.
The AP thought so too, and even made a point of mentioning that Hamadan did not have these rights observed.
And if the press is trying to make the average citizen believe that unlawful combatants have these rights, how long before juries acquit on that basis? Even military tribunal members read the paper, so it is far from unlikely that, given a press drumbeat about this for a decade or two, we will find our soldiers being equipped with little khaki Miranda cards and evidence bags so that their unlawful combatant prisoners won't be released one ground of improperly collected evidence.
It is coming, whether you believe me or not.