Administration will pursue Times Square suspects in U.S., abroad

Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee that “the administration would use all available resources to bring those responsible to justice,” for the attempted Times Square bombing, “whether they are in the United States or overseas,” The Washington Post reported on Thursday, May 13.

The Post also reported that Holder defended the Obama administration’s counterterrorism approach, saying that protecting Americans against terrorism “remains the highest priority for the Department of Justice. The administration will continue to use all lawful means to protect our national security, including, where appropriate, military, law enforcement, diplomatic and economic tools and authorities.”

Holder also said that “the criminal justice system has proven its strength in both incapacitating terrorists and gathering valuable intelligence,” and urged Congress to modernize and clarify the public safety exception to the Miranda warnings “so that interrogators would have “a greater degree of clarity” on how the exception can be used in questioning terrorism suspects,” The Post reported.

Further reading: The Washington Post story


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