The foiled Times Square car bombing has provided a platform for former Gov. George Pataki, who took to the airwaves on MSNBC this morning to slam the Obama administration’s terror-fighting tactics.

Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling “enemy combatants” to Miranda warnings, enabling them to “lawyer up and not talk about what they know”; and going along with US AG Eric Holder’s decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.

“I think all of these are steps that have weakened our security and have made events – tragic possible events like last Saturday night in Times Square – much harder to prevent,” Pataki said.

Pataki did say it’s appropriate to make distinctions between non-citizen terror suspects and US citizens like Faisal Shahzad, who has admitted to his role in the Times Square plot, adding: “The Christmas Day bomber should not have been given the Miranda warnings…he is an enemy combatant, a terrorist without those rights.”

The former governor recently took a pass on running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to start a national effort to repeal the new health care reform law – a move widely interpreted to mean that he is eyeing another White House run.

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