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Randy Forbes: “Madam Chairman, once again we hear the intent, but why in the world we would want to reduce the current jurisdiction…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2007
Madam Chairman, once again we hear the intent, but why in the world we would want to reduce the current jurisdiction that we have, which is what we see reflected in this piece of legislation that could have been corrected, still is beyond me. If we have a contractor who is having employees doing illegal acts in a base in Germany in a mission for DOD, we would want to prosecute them every bit as much as we would if they were in Iraq. Why we want to reduce that, I just don't understand.
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Randy Forbes
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing concerns over jurisdiction in legislation related to military contractors.

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