By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds in Detroit scored a victory in a pretrial battle against the man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber.” The Detroit Free reports that U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds ruled Thursday that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s incriminating statements he made to the FBI after the 2009 incident can be used in trial….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An FBI memo issued in December says investigators can interrogate domestic-terror suspects longer without giving them a Miranda warning, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Evan Perez. The FBI memo said the policy applies to “exceptional cases” where investigators “conclude that continued unwarned interrogation is necessary to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It hasn’t been all glamour for Eric Holder Jr. as Attorney General. For one, there’s the less than friendly receptions on Capitol Hill from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who seem to enjoy grilling him like a burger at a 4th of July gathering. Then there’s the second…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A retired FBI agent well versed in interrogating spies and terrorists, says he wants FBI Director Robert Mueller III to speak up and defend the reading of Miranda Warnings to suspects, the website Spy Talk reported. Retired agent Joe Navarro said the Miranda Warning — giving suspects the right…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and the White House are floating the idea of legislation that would create a new exception to the Miranda rule for suspected terrorists. It’s not as outrageous as Sen. Joe Lieberman’s proposal that accused terrorists be stripped of their U.S. citizenship, but…
By The Tennessean Editorial Page MEMPHIS — First give credit where it is due: to local New York and federal authorities who tracked down and apprehended the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing. In the nine days since Faisal Shahzad was placed in custody, he has been interviewed at great length and yielded much…
Steven Levin was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland and North Carolina for 10 years before forming a law firm Levin & Gallagher. He had previously served on active duty for seven years in the United States Army as a defense counsel, an appellate attorney and a trial attorney. He is the co-author of a…
