Rep. Gohmert: ‘We Don’t Have Forensic Wagons To Gather Evidence on the Battlefield’
Rest of Title: for Civil Court Trials of Terrorists Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), who opposes the Obama administration’s decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a civilian court instead of a military tribunal, told CNSNews.com that U.S. troops do not have “forensic wagons to pull up on the battlefield when we’ve got people in harm’s way” to collect evidence as is done for civil court cases. “[T]o require the same types of standards of a civilian court to be applied to a war setting where our guys, our men and women are in harms way, is to require...
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