TPM:
It turns out that the criticism surrounding the decision to read Miranda rights to the attempted Christmas bombing suspect didn't originally come from any office-holding Republican.
Rather, it was pioneered by Tom Ridge and Dick Cheney in the days after Christmas, and only later picked up by members of Congress like Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO).
With the heated Obama-GOP back-and-forth this week over the Mirandizing of Umar Abdulmutallab, we decided to look back at the facts of what happened, and when critics pounced on the issue.
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Yes the Cheney factor is always with us even if Cheney is in that cave. Ridge just needs a job so he'll say and do anything. Cheney like the evil thing he is will do as much evil as possible. This shows many voters who they elected and just how stupid those elected people are.
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