Would you agree that there is a significant difference between the police and the Army.

I think under the administration's new strategy we'll have both the military and the civilian capacity to be able to make headway with the Afghans.

I will say we have developed in the inter-agency benchmarks for success.

Today, we are going to examine the pressing need to strengthen forensic science in America.

The labs should not be beholden to the law enforcement side, because labs should be about science.

I have a particular interest in this. Everybody I've talked with when I was in Afghanistan told me how much they need this for the same reasons that the Secretary described.

I am 100-percent certain that this fingerprint is the one except, Oops, no, found out it was not.

If a little tiny State like ours could do it, why don't other States do that?

the National Academy of Sciences called for the coroner system in this country to be abolished.

The bad news is it demonstrates that we have a problem, and the problems can go to the heart of our whole criminal justice system.

This is something that should frighten every single person in this country, so thank you very much, Senator, for doing that.

I would think just to say from a law enforcement point of view, I would think they would want it.

I know the importance of this firsthand from the experience of my friend Kirk Bloodsworth, an innocent man who was twice convicted of murder and rape, served 8 years in prison, including two on death row, and then they finally tested the…

I think the Army Guard is going to be better equipped, better trained, and in a better position because of your service.

So should we do something different in the appropriation process itself to make it easier?

Our process allows for a thorough review of the evidence under seven mandatory criteria.

The 16 groups that have been acknowledged have been acknowledged since the beginning of our acknowledgement regulations in 1978.

The extraordinary high rate of illiteracy among the recruits there has to be a cause of concern.