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On the recordJuly 7, 2009
Between 1993 and 2001, this country took the approach of prosecuting terrorism in courtrooms as criminal defendants rather than fighting them on the battlefield as foreign enemies.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sensenbrenner criticizes past terrorism prosecution methods and links them to 9/11 failures.

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