Graham Upset White House Won’t Declare Boston Suspect An Enemy Combatant

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR 2:43 PM EDT, MONDAY APRIL 22, 2013

In a Capitol Hill press conference Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) pushed back on the White House's decision not to declare suspected Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an enemy combatant and thereby strip his rights under the criminal justice system.

Graham said he agrees that "no criminal defendent should ever be required to incriminate themself while they're in custody of the government" but said it's more important to gain information he may possess about other potential terrorist attacks.

"Every nation at war should have the ability to defend themselves by gathering intelligence. These are not mutually exclusive concepts," he said. "I believe our nation is at war. The enemy is radical Islam, defined as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and affiliated groups. The question I have regarding this case: is there any association between these two individuals and the groups I just named to allow enemy combatant status to be conferred on the suspect in Boston."

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Screw Lindsey and the kiddie carousel horse he rode in on

[DinahMoeHum]

1. Fuck that stupid blowhard.

. . .a slab of meat with a big mouth and a tiny pee-pee.

[Lindsay]

2. Graham upset

that a Democrat occupies the White House.

[olddots]

3. poor baby Lindsey

You can start a war later about something else ,we know how much you like to play macho games .

[PDJane]

4. I really wonder how that piece of work managed to get elected....

Hypocritical POS.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Shut up, Lindsey.

Anything the Obama administration does that annoys John McCain's Mini-Me, I'm in favor of.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. Graham thinks he's Chief Executive and can tell the Justice Department how to prosecute terrorists

What a clown.

[dballance]

7. So, Our Government, Classifying Him Differently is Going to Make Him Talk?

I don't see how that works. He'll still be the same person whether or not he's tried in federal courts or military courts. Whether or not he's read his Miranda rights will have little to do with whether or not he, personally, wishes to divulge any information.

Is Graham suggestion we start using certain different "enhanced" interrogation techniques if he's declared an Enemy Combatant? Does he want to send him to GitMo? Waterboard him?

Am I missing something?

[Aristus]

8. God, those assholes want another war awful bad.

Completely ignoring that the situation was handled successfully in the appropriate way: with law-enforcement personnel.

[Gregorian]

9. Haha! Bush is history. Get used to it.

I was thinking about Barbara Bush when I read that we had treated the suspect like a citizen.

It bothered me that there was even room for a decision. What would Bush have done. I hope Americans grow up and never elect another fascist.

[jberryhill]

10. He was born upset

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Too bad...elections have consequences...he's welcome to try to craft a passable, veto proof law

to get his way.

I wish him well in the Senate.

[Lint Head]

12. Weh weh weh.. Waaah waaah! Snivel, snivel....

[Politicalboi]

13. FU Lindsey

Besides, the one who flew out of the country is dead. The younger brother probably only had his older brother as his "connection" to the terrorist world.

[appleannie1]

14. Tough tuttie.

[yellowcanine]

15. Wouldn't the association with a terrorist organization have to be established first?

Lindsey Graham is in over his head, which isn't that difficult.

[thucythucy]

16. And I'M upset the White House

won't declare Graham an insufferable twit.

But no one ever quotes me about it. Go figure.

[OldHippieChick]

17. I'm so embarrassed he passed the bar

and claims to have any Constitutinal knowledge. Obviously he flunked that part of the exam

[Boomerproud]

18. My reaction