Abdulmutallab starts talking again

Source: NBC News

From NBC's Pete Williams and Chuck Todd
After initially talking freely to FBI interrogators, and then refusing to answer questions, the man accused of the Christmas Day bomb plot has begun talking again, according to officials familiar with the case.

Asked today at a Senate hearing about Umar Abdulmutallab, the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, said the government needs to balance the need for intelligence versus the need for prosecution.

"The balance in Abdulmutallab was understandable. We got good intelligence. We're getting more," he said.

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/02/2192458.aspx

It would explain a great deal.

I thought we weren't getting good information because we treat him like a criminal, Miranda and all. We should be torturing him, instead. Yeah, sure, right.

:sarcasm:

Source: Washington Post

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up a jet airplane on Christmas Day, has been providing FBI interrogators with useful intelligence about his training and contacts since last week, Obama administration sources said Tuesday.

Separately, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told senators at an intelligence committee hearing that Abdulmutallab was giving information to investigators. Mueller did not elaborate.

The disclosures that the Nigerian student is cooperating with criminal investigators come amid a fierce debate in Congress over the Obama administration's handling of the case and, more broadly, its approach to national security.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203738.html

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Is it possible that our justice system works better than torture?