Retired general: GOP is undermining national security to score partisan points [View All]

Retired general: GOP is undermining national security to score partisan points

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0505/eaton-gop-attacking-national-security/

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 -- 11:09 am

In the wake of the arrest of alleged terrorist Faisal Shahzad, a number of Republican politicians have expressed outrage that the naturalized American citizen is being afforded the constitutional rights of citizenship.

Major General (ret.) Paul Eaton told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday, "I am a little surprised that we're here to defend our Constitution against a Republican senator and a Republican representative's attack on it."

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Representative Peter King (R-NY) have both suggested that it was an error to read Shahzad his Miranda rights and to keep him in the civilian justice system rather than immediately handing him over to the military.