From WaPo: Authorities seek deal with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

And it just keeps getting weirder.

From the Washington Post: “Authorities are inching toward an agreement that would secure cooperation from the suspect in the failed Detroit airliner attack, according to two sources familiar with the case, even as fresh details emerged about the intense and chaotic response to the Christmas Day incident.

Seizing on the near miss, GOP lawmakers have mounted a sustained attack on President Obama and the Justice Department, saying they may have lost out on valuable intelligence by charging Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a federal court rather than under the military justice system.

But new details complicate that narrative, suggesting that Abdulmutallab, 23, clammed up even before he was informed of his right to remain silent — a warning that could have come later had he been placed in military custody. He continued to speak to authorities before undergoing treatment for second- and third-degree burns below the waist that occurred during a bid to detonate explosives on Northwest Flight 253.

The incident has provoked criticism that federal agencies missed intelligence signals that might have prevented the attack, and has reignited a fierce debate about the adequacy of traditional law enforcement tools to combat terrorist threats.

Well, duh. To coin a phrase.

Now here’s what occurred to me. They had this guy in custody and talking, in what has to have been terrible pain from setting his own crotch on fire, and they gave him an anesthetic?

I personally think the self-inflicted nature of the guy’s injuries makes the issue of torture moot.

What was it Batman said to Ras Al-ghul?

“I can’t kill you. But I don’t have to save you.”

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