[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 88 (Friday, June 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H6622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   MIRANDA RIGHTS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, ``You have the 
right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you. You 
have the right to an attorney.'' Those are things that are said when 
arresting officers make an arrest in the United States. But now we 
understand that under the Obama administration, we now have something 
known as the concept of global justice in which we are now giving 
Miranda warnings to those that we have found on the battlefield whose 
only connection to the United States is that they wish to kill 
Americans.
  Isn't that nonsensical? What are we going to do now? Are we going to 
train our enlisted men and women in the Armed Forces that when they're 
on the battlefield, instead of shooting, they should pull out their 
card with the Miranda warnings to make sure that if the person they're 
encountering is captured, they have to give them those rights? How 
about preserving the crime scene? This is nonsense.

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