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"We have evidence, we believe he was part of the crime against humanity committed in Libya by him, his father and (former spy chief Abdullah) al-Sennusi," Ocampo told CNN. "Saif was critically important in organising the killings of civilians in Libya and that is why we are prosecuting him".

I'm hopeful that the president will become forceful, that we will return back to the direction where we are prosecuting the war on terror.

And so I'm prepared to work with Democrats and Republicans, and we, over the course of the last year, have been in constant conversations with them about setting up a sensible system in which we are prosecuting, where appropriate, those in Article III courts; we are prosecuting others, where appropriate, through a military tribunal.

In her statement explaining why she was opposing the bipartisan background checks legislation, Heitkamp said, "I've been adamant from the very beginning of this conversation that the focus should be on mental health issues, full and accurate reporting into the NICS database and ensuring that we are prosecuting criminals in possession of or trying to possess firearms.

"If this guy's telling the truth, there's an interesting question as to why we're prosecuting him," said Robert M. Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas who specializes in national security.

"We're prosecuting Border Patrol cases, national park cases, customs cases, D.E.A. cases — any cases in which they have 499 pounds of marijuana or less, because I don't want the drug dealers to have no consequences whatsoever," Ms. LaWall said.

Very slowly, as if he were in some perverse way proud of what had befallen him or of how stoically he'd endured it, he began to smile, and I couldn't help thinking that he'd make a first-rate soldier in whatever war we were prosecuting when he grew up.

"This was meant to be a shot across the bows that we're here, we're prosecuting and we're not going to be stingy".

Eventually, he gets totally indignant that we're prosecuting terrorists these days in the super-effective justice system instead of using the GITMO morass.

I think it's a good thing that people aren't in shackles, and it's a terrible thing that we're prosecuting dozens and dozens of people daily for the crime of coming to the country".

I truly long for the days when we were prosecuting Nazis at Nuremburg for crimes against humanity such as torture, instead of being accused of the very same thing".