The legislation that the service chiefs oppose -- Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Military Justice Improvement Act that seeks to reform prosecutions by removing them from commanders heretofore unwilling or unable to pursue them -- is just what the doctor ordered.
The Fraternal Order of Police has taken the justice system hostage in terms of reform and prosecution.
The official response to the case has been inconsistent from the outset, with some officials — most notably the president — urging both reforms and prosecution.
Ukraine has passed a "lustration law" and reformed its prosecution system, and the oligarchs want to see plenty of MPs in the new parliament who will work to blunt the effect.
Under the reforms, no prosecution for a political crime could be brought even in the regular courts unless approved by the local Party committee.
The collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the fall from grace of Martha Stewart and Richard Grasso and the humbling of Wall Street in general have spawned new legislation, regulatory reforms, criminal prosecutions, lawsuits, books, articles and -need we add? -- stock-market losses.
("CIA torture report not likely to result in reforms or prosecutions," Dec. 10).
Publication of the first report contributed to successful lobbying by civil society organisations to strengthen the law on wildlife crime, and led directly to major reforms in the prosecution of wildlife trials.
"The process of decision-making is so opaque, and takes place outside of the public's view, that people don't have confidence that justice is being served," said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a watchdog group that has called for reforms in the prosecution of police misconduct.
In addition to these two reforms, during the prosecution of the criminal case a federal judge issued a decision specifying that if a police officer reveals his misconduct to a union delegate or trustee, he can no longer expect that it will be kept secret from appropriate law enforcement agencies and state and federal prosecutors.
