The Weekly Standard surveyed the Senate on two simple questions: “Does Senator XX believe that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been read his Miranda rights? And does Senator XX believe that Abdulmutallab should be tried in civilian courts?”
They got a 55 percent response rate (and of those that didn’t respond, only two were Republican), and among respondents only one senator gave unequivocal support to the administration’s handling of Abdulmutallab: Sen. Roland Burris (D., Ill.).
Democrat Evan Bayh (Ind.) and independent Joe Lieberman (Conn.) joined 38 Republicans in answering “No.” The other ten Democrats who responded to the survey gave ambiguous answers. Full results here.






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