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Summer Lee: “Can you just quickly say, does that work through your issues with respect to that separation, and I think that is…”

On the recordMay 8, 2012
Can you just quickly say, does that work through your issues with respect to that separation, and I think that is enormously important, including the prosecution of terrorists in civilian courts?
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Asks about the separation of military and FBI roles in terrorist prosecutions.

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