{"id":277388,"date":"2010-02-03T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/robert-gates-dodges-questions-regarding-the-prosecution-of-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:12:20","slug":"robert-gates-dodges-questions-regarding-the-prosecution-of%c2%a0terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277388","title":{"rendered":"Robert Gates Dodges Questions Regarding The Prosecution Of\u00a0Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Robert+Gates_1961_19593937_0_0_7016783_300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Gates dodges questions regarding the prosecution of terrorists\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say whether he agrees with Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s prosecution strategy of trying self-proclaimed 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City. <\/p>\n<p>When pressed by Senator John McCain (R-AZ.) for a &quot;candid answer,&quot; Gates replied that Holder was better suited to make the decision and again reserved comment, according to the Associated Press (AP). <\/p>\n<p>Later in the meeting, McCain continued to push for the defense secretary&#8217;s point of view, asking him whether he agreed with the Obama administration&#8217;s decision to question attempted Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab using civilian interrogators for only 50 minutes before reading him his Miranda rights. <\/p>\n<p>Gates responded, &quot;I think we did not have the high-level interrogators there that we now have protocols in place&quot; to guarantee their presence, quoted by the news source. However he added: &quot;I believe that a team of highly experienced FBI and other interrogators could be as effective in interrogating the prisoner as anyone operating under the (Army) field manual.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The defense secretary did admit that it is within the legal rights of an interrogator to delay &quot;mirandizing&quot; a suspect, if the person &quot;is deemed to be a threat to national security.&quot;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19593937-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19593937\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say whether he agrees with Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s prosecution strategy of trying self-proclaimed 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York City. When pressed by Senator John McCain (R-AZ.) for a &quot;candid answer,&quot; Gates replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}