"Can we move away from bulk collection and toward a system like the one used in the criminal prosecution system, in which the government subpoenas individual call data records," Ruppersberger told the House committee hearing.
"Can we move away from bulk collection and toward a system like the one used in the criminal prosecution system, in which the government subpoenas individual call data records – phone numbers, no content – to be used for link analysis?" Ruppersberger asked.
While these arrests often do not lead to incarceration, they typically begin and then sustain the process of feeding people into the criminal prosecution system and reducing their chances for higher education and career success.
"Juries are entitled to hear the best mitigation if there is to be any integrity in the federal prosecution system".
Mr Fox, who defeated the PRI in 2000, promised to attack crime by reforming the police and prosecution system.
The event has been overshadowed by an attack by Lord Fraser, the former lord advocate and head of Scotland's prosecution system at the time of the bombing, on the Lockerbie campaigner Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack and who contests the official position blaming Libya for the bombing.
Brian Lewis, the first male survivor of military sexual abuse to testify before Congress, told lawmakers that sexual assault and rape was an "epidemic" in the military which remained untackled because of the existing reporting and prosecution system.
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.
This April, an I.C.C. judge chastised the prosecutor's failure to investigate properly prior to confirming charges against Uhuru Kenyatta, now president of Kenya, and underscored "grave problems in the prosecution's system of evidence review, as well as a serious lack of proper oversight by senior prosecution staff".
