Where oh where has our little Pakistani Taliban gone? We’ve haven’t seen Faisal Shahzad since his arrest, but the administration has changed its public stance

NYC, NY—Oh where can Faisal Shahzad be? In a Wall Street Journal OpEd, authors Dana Perino and Bill Burck ask that same question. Conspicuous by its absences are any court appearances by the Pakistani Taliban.

On May 9^th, Attorney General Eric Holder said, "We need to give serious consideration to at least modifying the public safety exception [to Miranda]" and grant law enforcement officials "necessary flexibility". Is this an admission that Mirandizing the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in less than an hour was a mistake?

It well may be, but the fact that Mr. Shahzad has not been in a courthouse seems to indicate that his cooperation is leading to more arrests and possibly to disrupting other terror plots. Moreover, it appears the administration's new vigor for terror prosecution means what they’ve come to learn cannot be ignored and therefore, quick and decisive action must be taken.

There have already been a number of detainments and arrests in relation to Shahzad’s attempted Times Square bombing, not to mention a realigned military commitment to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps the divorce of campaign rhetoric has finally come to fruition in an administration that thought words and appeasement would be enough to fight terrorism.

-- Killswitch Politick

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