{"id":17184,"date":"2010-02-03T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17184"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:31:28","slug":"underpants-bomber-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17184","title":{"rendered":"Underpants bomber talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to testimony to the Senate yesterday as reported in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/02\/AR2010020203738.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a>, the Underoos bomber is talking again;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosures that the Nigerian student is cooperating with criminal investigators come amid a fierce debate in Congress over the Obama administration&#8217;s handling of the case and, more broadly, its approach to national security. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A report from Associated Press; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"500px\" height=\"333px\" src=\"http:\/\/specials.washingtonpost.com\/mv\/embed\/?title=Christmas%20day%20terror%20suspect%20continues%20to%20talk&#038;stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Fphoto%2F2010%2F02%2F03%2FPH2010020300922.jpg&#038;flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2010%2F02032010-1v&#038;width=500&#038;height=333&#038;autoStart=false&#038;clickThru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Fvideo%2F2010%2F02%2F03%2FVI2010020300910.html\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The break came when US interrogators brought Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s family to the US to convince him to cooperate. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. investigators flew members of Abdulmutallab&#8217;s family from Nigeria to the United States on Jan. 17, the senior administration official said. The family members have proved vital in getting Abdulmutallab to talk, he said &#8212; indicating that it would have been counterproductive to interrogate him under military rules, as some have suggested. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They act like this makes up for Underoo&#8217;s clamming up after he was read his Miranda rights. Hardly. Do they think that terrorists don&#8217;t read newspapers? Any intelligence he could have provided after those first 50 minutes is now stale. Any training locations have certainly been dismantled, any trainers and contacts are in the wind. So why would they bother interrogating now? To build future legal cases. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all such a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3685\">dicksmith<\/a> sees this as a vidication of <a href=\"http:\/\/vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=623\">Tony Camerino&#8217;s assertion<\/a> that we don&#8217;t need enhanced interrogation techniques to extract information;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Silly me, I thought only torture techniques like water boarding, slamming into walls, sleep deprivation for 180 hours, placement in insect boxes or food deprivation above 1,000 calories a day could get a suspected al Queda [sic] terrorist to give reliable intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But we&#8217;re getting this information a month after it&#8217;s already stale. As DrewM at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/297799.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a> accurately points out, this is a unique case. How many family members of these goat ropers are willing to help the US? Of course, we&#8217;re extracting old information &#8211; so what&#8217;s to celebrate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to testimony to the Senate yesterday as reported in the Washington Post, the Underoos bomber &hellip; <a title=\"Underpants bomber talking\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17184\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Underpants bomber talking<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}