My hope is that we can call these guys for what they--what unites these two cases is that both Khomeini and Ahmadinejad ordered the actions which killed Neda and put Nasrin into Evin prison without her kids.

I think we ought to call a human rights abuser a human rights abuser.

I think this committee is united around the fact that the FLAME Act is not being implemented in the way that we all intended it to.

It's heart wrenching to see some of the impediments that are still there to keep us from treating more of the forests.

I recommend you read it because it was astoundingly ignorant.

I think that is important for our consideration as we work on the markup of the defense authorization bill.

Lieutenant General Harding, you just answered Senator McCaskill's question, saying you think character should be considered whether or not we go to trial.

Not every single commander necessarily wants women in the force.

General Dempsey, you said the same thing. You said that you might argue that we have become too forgiving because if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is…

General Odierno, you said the military is built on a bedrock of trust. Crimes cut to the heart of military readiness.

In Israel, in the last 5 years because they have prosecuted high-level cases, you know what has increased by 80 percent? Reporting.

Now Secretary Hagel has said the most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed the crime.

This has been done before by our allies to great effect.

I need to know how many cases you all have taken that civilian prosecutors declined to prosecute.

At the beginning of the trial process, deciding whether or not there is sufficient evidence to support the charges, the character of the defendant should be irrelevant.

I think part of the problem here is you all have mushed together two issues in ways that are not helpful to successful prosecution.

There is not--it is not relevant as to whether or not somebody raped a woman how good a pilot he was.

the status quo is not acceptable.