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

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

I hope that prosecutors and defense attorneys around the country are reading it and raising questions.

I have seen the enormous cuts in the amount of money that is available for forensic science in the past few years.

Forensic scientists too rarely get to review crime scene evidence in sleek, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art laboratories.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think the potential is there. I think it's a real uphill battle.

DHS representatives had previously denied that DHS had any information regarding the MSP investigations targeting these protesters.

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.

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 think that the new strategy and now the newest development which gives me more hope than I've had in quite a while.