Does The Buck Still Stop With You, Mr. President?

It's turned out that the Christmas Day Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was only interrogated for 50 minutes before he was mirandized and provided with a Government-paid lawyer. Can you guess what happened next? Yep, you got it - he shut up. Even more stunningly, the Obama administration is defending it's decision by pointing out that before being mirandized, Abdulmutallab gave the FBI some good intelligence. So why stop?

It just doesn't make any sense.
Many people who support Obama are pointing to how Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was treated by the Bush administration. With just a superficial glace at both cases, they may indeed seem to be very similar. Reid was also mirandized and got 'lawyered up'.
If you look a little deeper, though, it's apparent that there are a few critical differences in the two cases.
In the case of Richard Reid, his flight landed at approx. 12:55 pm and he was allegedly informed of his rights about 4 hours later, at approx. 5:07 pm. Whereupon, he was interrogated for hours and eventually did talk.
Also, Reid's terror attack took place on December 22, 2001. Just 3 months after Sept, 11th., when the Department of Homeland Security wasn't formed yet. That didn't happen until November, 2002. You could argue that the Bush administration created the Dept. specifically in reaction to the Reid debacle, in fact.
If anything, the 8 years that have elapsed since Richard Reid's 'shoe-bomb' attack should have taught us how to handle situations like this. Apparently, the lesson here is that Obama is just fine with treating a terrorist as a criminal, and not as an unlawful combatant. Even after 8 years of intense targeting of the US by terrorists around the world, Obama is still oblivious. Perhaps willfully so...