Reply #44: There would be no benefit denying miranda rights if the matter was not an urgent "bomb" situation.

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The thing about miranda rights in this case is you get a lawyer before being interrogated, which means you have to go through the miranda process first. That really only has an effect if its "need answers now or people will die" situation. So even if I was highly suspicious of the Obama administration trying to usurp more government power, I wouldn't see this as anything that really achieves that.

But you also have to consider that if they are wanting to extend the public safety exception, they are in fact going through the proper channels of law to do so. If they are asking for the law to be extended, thats fine by me. My problem was never the government seeking to change laws to accomodate fighting terrorism, my problem was the government just doing whatever the hell it pleased without paying any respect to existing laws, like the Bush administration did with wiretapping and torture. Like with the wiretapping, it wasn't illegal because they were spying on American citizens phone calls and such, it was illegal because they were doing it without following the proper channels to get a warrant, even though they could do so 72 hours after the fact. If the Obama administration seeks to change the way a law works using the proper democratic channels to do so and follows existing law in the meantime, I can't really criticize that.