When the Christmas Day bomber news made headlines, Republicans saw it as an opportune moment to backlash Democrats on the handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s case. Now, a new series of “wrongs” from Republican Maine Senator Susan M. Collins, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have Rachel Maddow doing double fact checking duty with Nation DC Editor Chris Hayes analyzing the Democrats’ response.

Some of the “wrongs” include the belief that Abdulmutallab should not have been given rights to a lawyer, the Obama administration did not seek any input from top administration officials when handling his case, and the administration handed him to a lawyer after a 50-minute interview. Maddow quickly identifies how they are all “wrong, wrong, wrong.” As Hayes argues, the Democrats’ are slow to defend their correct, and right position.

Yet he finds there is more pressing fear that the Republicans are going “far to the right of Dick Cheney” and debating policies that are frankly, not legal to change. “It’s just not legally permissible to do the things that Mitch McConnell wants, A., and B., we are really starting to see the dangers of this slippery-slopeness and this is what civil libertarians have been warning about.”

—Clarissa León

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