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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:09 PM Jun 2014

McConnell: Don't Read Benghazi Suspect Khatallah His Rights

SAHIL KAPUR – JUNE 17, 2014, 2:55 PM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday the captured Libyan militant suspected of carrying out the Benghazi attacks of 2012 should be "interrogated extensively" and shouldn't be given due process rights.

He was asked if Ahmed Abu Khatallah should be tried in a U.S. court, as authorities intend on doing.

"First I congratulate those who were involved in capturing this guy. I think that's a significant step. He needs to be interrogated extensively. And I hope that will occur," McConnell said. "There has been a tendency in this administration, as you know, to treat this like a law enforcement matter. Read them their rights. Get them a lawyer. I hope they're not doing that."

He added: "The most valuable thing we can get from this terrorist is information about who else was involved in it. We'll be watching closely to see how much information they glean from it and how they'll be handling it.

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McConnell: Don't Read Benghazi Suspect Khatallah His Rights (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
Let's send Mitchie in there with a solder gun.... louis-t Jun 2014 #1
Right, you idiot, elleng Jun 2014 #2
I am no longer surprised by rightwing loonery gwheezie Jun 2014 #3
I think the Republicans would have been those people in the stadiums of Rome Frustratedlady Jun 2014 #5
Translation: Bring on the waterboard and CIA goons. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #4
Well Mitch, heres you're chance............. wandy Jun 2014 #6
Isn't reading rights just for US citizens? nt karynnj Jun 2014 #7
See that..the Republican lawlessness..this is what they're good at. Jefferson23 Jun 2014 #8

louis-t

(23,284 posts)
1. Let's send Mitchie in there with a solder gun....
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:12 PM
Jun 2014

Repugs love torture and it seems that this is what this dumbass is proposing.

elleng

(130,824 posts)
2. Right, you idiot,
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:12 PM
Jun 2014

so we WON'T be able to prosecute him, like so many of the Guantanamo inmates, because their evidence was compromised!

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
3. I am no longer surprised by rightwing loonery
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:15 PM
Jun 2014

The same people who claim to be the real americans and Obama is a secret muslim, commie, mau mau seem to have no faith in our system of government or constitution.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
5. I think the Republicans would have been those people in the stadiums of Rome
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:35 PM
Jun 2014

screaming for more gore and blood when the lions were released on some...let's say, Democrats.

Can't you just see it?

They get their jollies when trying to make Obama and Clinton squirm.

wandy

(3,539 posts)
6. Well Mitch, heres you're chance.............
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 03:35 PM
Jun 2014

You been running you're mouth off about Benghazi for two years about what should have been and what you would have done.
Well here's your chance. I say let's lock you and Ahmed Abu Khatallah in a room and let you go all Jack Bauer on him.
Just you Mitch and him, Mitch.

Lets see how much you can put behind that Teapublican mouth.

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