OBAMA WAS AGAINST MIRANDIZING TERRORISTS BEFORE HE WAS FOR IT

President Obama has swung full circle on his stance on whether non-citizen terrorists deserve Miranda rights. As you can see from the video clip of the March 22, 2009 edition of 60 Minutes (text below at appx. 2:25 mark), President Obama told CBS's Steve Kroft that he was against providing Miranda rights to enemy combatants, or terrorists. As we all know, the president and his attorney general, Eric Holder, have turned 180 degrees on this, including offering Miranda rights to the Christmas Eve, "underwear", or "crotch" bomber.

STEVE KROFT:

Some of it being organized by a few people who were released from Guantanamo.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

Well there is no doubt that-- we have not done a particularly effective job in sorting through who are truly dangerous individuals that we've got to-- make sure are not a threat to us, who are folks that we just swept up. The whole premise of Guantanamo promoted by Vice President Cheney was that somehow the American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists.

I fundamentally disagree with that. Now-- do these folks deserve Miranda rights? Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter-- down the block? Of course not.

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