Source: Talking Points Memo

Brennan: GOP-ers Knew Xmas Bomber Was Mirandized, Raised No Objections
Rachel Slajda | February 8, 2010, 10:16AM

White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan yesterday struck back at Congressional Republicans who have been attacking the administration for giving the attempted Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights. Brennan said on Meet the Press that top GOP-ers raised no objections to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being held in FBI custody.

Brennan said he called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Pete Hoekstra and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Kit Bond on Christmas night to tell them Abdulmutallab was in FBI custody.

"I explained to them that he was in FBI custody, that Mr. Abdulmutallab was, in fact, talking, that he was cooperating at that point," Brennan said. "They knew that 'in FBI custody' means that there's a process then you follow as far as Mirandizing and presenting him in front of a magistrate," Brennan said.

"None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point. They didn't say, 'Is he going into military custody? Is he going to be Mirandized?'" he said.

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