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Boehner: GOP Preparing Major Attack On Obama For Mirandizing Terrorists


Buried in this interview that John Boehner did with ABC News is a preview of the Next Big And Very Scary GOP National Security Attack: A full-scale assault on the White House for Mirandizing terrorists.

Boehner told ABC that national security was Obama’s Achilles heel, then added:

“I think most Americans will be appalled that we’re providing Miranda rights to terrorists,” Boehner predicted. “This thing is going to bubble up big.”

Boehner’s office confirms that’s the first time he’s made the charge, making this a kind of call to arms for the GOP and the right. The reference is to this report in the Weekly Standard, which said that Obama’s Justice Department has “quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan.”

But is it true? A Justice Department spokesperson emailed us that while that there have been “specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas,” there has been “no policy change” and “no blanket instruction” to Mirandize detainees.

Interestingly, Boehner’s call to arms came after it emerged that no less a national security luminary than David Petraeus said he had “no concerns at all” about the Mirandizing of terrorists. Not even Petraeus’ word can dissuade Republicans from taking this tack.

This suggests, I think, an interesting new dynamic: The national security attacks coming from Republicans are opening up a bit of a schism between them and former allies in the Defense establishment who say such attacks are baseless. But more on this later.