But in an interview with Time magazine, Mr. Assange rejected such warnings, questioning the constitutionality of the Espionage Act.
Miller refused to back down in the face of criticism from the Patten, who on Tuesday responded to an earlier statement from the culture secretary by warning her against questioning the independence of the BBC.
The Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., had suppressed the statements on the ground that the police had not given Mr. Dickerson the Miranda warnings before questioning him.
The Supreme Court reinstated a 17-year-old's murder conviction on Tuesday, ruling 5 to 4 that the California courts were not wrong to disregard his youth in deciding that the police were not obliged to read him his Miranda warnings before questioning him.
If the Supreme Court deemed a gun-in-the-bananas situation an emergency obviating the need for Miranda warnings, surely questioning Abdulmutallab about whether other plots against airliners were afoot would qualify as an emergency and the Quarrles emergency questioning exception would apply.
But as a warning to anyone questioning his authenticity, he has also threatened to make public "the academic source literature for Mongolian horseback sex.
Then, after a break long enough to claim that a new interrogation had begun, they gave her a Miranda warning and resumed questioning.
After he and many others denounced the trial, the chief prosecutor issued a stark warning that anyone questioning the trial's legitimacy could in turn be prosecuted.
The Mauritanian government denounced the shootings as "an unspeakable criminal act carried out in cold blood, without warning, notice or questioning, against preachers who had no other weapons but their faith".
As a prosecutor, I never noted that federal agents much resented Miranda, even though some, like those in the Internal Revenue Service, were required to give warning when simply questioning someone.
