Washington (CNSNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he did not “have the timeline” and therefore did not know at Thursday's press briefing whether President Barack Obama knew in advance on Christmas Day that Miranda rights were going to be read that day to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the terrorist who tried to detonate a bomb on Northwest Flight 253.

Gibbs, however, said he would check to find out. "I'll go back and look at the timeline," he said.

FBI agents told Abdulmutallab he had the right to remain silent and consult a lawyer only about ten hours after he was arrested. Up until that point, the terrorist had only been interrogated for about 50 minutes. After he was Mirandized, Abdulmutallab initially stopped talking to federal investigators. According to a report this week in The Washington Post, Abdulmutallab only began cooperating with federal officials again last week after some of his family members had been brought to the United States from Nigeria...