WANTED: DEAD OR DEAD:

Eric Holder: Osama bin Laden won't be brought in alive (JOSH GERSTEIN, 3/16/10, Politico)

Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional panel Tuesday that the question of reading Osama bin Laden his Miranda rights is absurd – because he won’t be brought in alive.

“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “You’re talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. We will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Obama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That’s the reality….He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people, so he’s not captured by us. We know that.”

Granted that the poor fool has painted himself into a corner on national security, but that's an inartful way to try and escape.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2010 7:29 PM