SUMMARY: Bill O'Reilly falsely asserted that the Obama administration has reportedly ordered "military people" to read Miranda rights to detainees in Afghanistan. In fact, the FBI -- not military personnel -- reportedly have been Mirandizing detainees in specific instances.
As Media Matters for America noted, on the June 10 edition of Fox News' Hannity, just hours after Hayes reported that that the FBI also Mirandized people at "specific bases" during the Bush administration, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich described "[t]he idea that we pick up, in a war zone, a terrorist" and read them Miranda rights as "unimaginable. It's worse than anything Jimmy Carter ever did. It's worse than anything that President Bill Clinton ever did." Neither Gingrich nor host Sean Hannity noted Hayes' assertion.