US Justice Department sending out 14 lawyers across the globe to persuade nations to beef up anti-te
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[quote]Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration is sending prosecutors and law enforcement advisers abroad, and urging other countries to overhaul their laws to make it easier to prosecute people who return after being involved in terrorism.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Justice Department has dispatched lawyers to 14 countries -- four in the Balkan region and 10 in North Africa and the Middle East -- to work with policymakers there.
"These personnel will provide critical assistance to our allies in order to help prosecute those who return from the Syrian region bent on committing acts of terrorism," Holder said at press conference.
His comments came after Holder met with his European counterparts to discuss the issue.
Holder said the State Department's Bureau of Counterterrorism is also sending staffers to those regions to aid what will be a "government-wide effort."
One objective is to ramp up international cooperation in areas such as "information sharing, investigations and prosecutions, and countering violent extremism," Holder said.
"Our goal is to build the capacity to fight foreign terrorist fighters within the rule of law -- so we can the stop flow of fighters into conflict regions, stem the tide of violence and aggressively combat violent extremism," Holder said. "We can succeed only as partners."[/quote]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/13/politics/holder-presser/index.html[/url]
As long as snowden and the like arent considered terrorists
This is dumb. Surely this will be abused.
This is quite a step forward. This could even be seen as a step in the right direction in the Guantanamo Bay debate. One of the main counter-points to closing that place down is that if we sent them back to their home countries, they wouldn't even be prosecuted. If we help these other countries reform their laws concerning terrorism, there might be some hope in having these radicals prosecuted and jailed back home where they belong.
How much for one patriot act?I think I want one for the wife too
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