On Eric Holder’s letter regarding the interrogation of the Christmas Day bomber:

In that letter, Holder [says] he followed the precedent of the Bush administration. It’s true that with Richard Reid … he was Mirandized, he was treated as a civilian. But it was a mistake. It happened three months after 9/11, and the military commission system hadn’t been established. . .
Here we are eight years later where we know that’s not the way to go, and they repeat the error and defend it.
They also had said there was a meeting — Holder said there was a meeting on January 5th involving the president, all the senior members of the security cabinet on this issue, and nobody even raised the issue of having him held under the laws of war. . .
Why it [Mirandizing Abdulmutallab] was done in the first place is a mystery and why it wasn’t undone and why nobody at a senior level, including the president, had suggested undoing it and having him interrogated without him having the right of silence, is really quite puzzling.