They could compile a respectable election-year record by reducing the regulatory burden on small businesses, simplifying the vetting of corporate mergers and streamlining judicialprocedures.
Panetta asked a subcommittee of the newly established Defense Legal Policy Board to review cases over the past decade in which U.S. forces committed crimes against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan to see whether judicialprocedures need to be improved.
We make perjury, subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice and witness tampering crimes because a judicial system can only succeed if its procedures expose the truth.