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      <excerpt>...testimony on Wednesday provided no credible rationale for sending the 9/11 conspirators into the civilian federal court system. This is 100% politics. Steam was pouring out of Eric Holder's ears after Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., quoted from former federal ..</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the United States should ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or, instead, prepare for the design of new nuclear arms. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and other Republicans have argued that concerns are growing over the reliability of the United States' agi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...if a suspect were acquitted, &quot;that doesn't mean that person would be released into our country.&quot; Tempers flared when Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., challenged Holder to say how a civilian trial could be the best idea, since Mohammed had previously sought to ple</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...into the civilian federal court system. This is 100% politics. Steam was pouring out of Eric Holder's ears after Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., quoted from former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy's National Review article this week. McCarthy described Holder </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...killed that day have said, after years of frustration, it is time to have justice.&quot; The most heated exchange involved Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. &quot;How could you be more likely to get a conviction in federal court when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has already asked </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) decided to postpone markup of the measure to a later date.  Republican opponents including Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said they objected to current language balancing protection for journalists and national security concerns. He said h</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...my job.&quot; Meanwhile, Holder came under withering Republican fire when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took issue with Holder's claim that a federal civilian court is &quot;where the government will have the greatest </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...speech earlier in the day. After the resolution passed in late afternoon, McConnell and his second-in-command, Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona, rushed in and offered him their congratulations. Byrd is accustomed to setting records. Since June 12, 200</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>(While mulling his next move, Giuliani is reading Sarah Palin.)
Ms. Sarah has begun her multi-city &quot;rouge&quot; book signing tour.
That has as much signifiance as Arizona GOP Sen. Jon Kyl taking off his suit jacket to interrogate AG Eric Holder; or Gov.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...on the claim, saying a judge and jury will make that decision, not Holder and his prosecutors. During tough questioning from Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, spontaneous applause erupted from angry family members of 9/11 victims who wanted the suspects tried in</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The panel adopted a substitute amendment offered by Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania at a committee markup session that would add more national security protections to the bill, which is known as the Free Flow of Information  ... &#8220;The langua</excerpt>
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      <title>Judiciary Panel Changes to Media Shield Bill Leave GOP Skeptical ...</title>
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      <excerpt>Recall that when Blanche Lincoln and Jon Kyl tried to lower the rate on estates worth more than $7 million (under which the rate is zero; they pay nothing), their efforts (in her case on behalf of the Walton family which owns so much of ...</excerpt>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:17:14 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>The attorney general said he is certain the men will be convicted, but even if a suspect were acquitted, &#8220;that doesn&amp;#39;t mean that person would be released into our country.&#8221; Tempers flared when Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., challenged Holder to ...</excerpt>
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      <source>The BG News on BG Views Network </source>
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      <title>BG Views - Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case</title>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:17:14 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>[Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) of Iowa] demanded that Holder explain the presence in the solicitor general&amp;#39;s office of Neal Katyal, who represented Osama Bin Laden&amp;#39;s driver at the Supreme Court. Grassley used a smear from the New York Post ( penned by th</excerpt>
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      <title>The Washington Monthly</title>
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      <excerpt>noneed (2) A new congressionally commissioned report just stuck it to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Kyl is the leading advocate in the Senate for testing nuclear weapons and has led the charge against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) &#8211; a ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But Fiorina&amp;#39;s picking up support from some pretty darn conservative senators, too: Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Jon Kyl of Arizona, and now, Oklahoma&amp;#39;s other senator James W. Inhofe. DeVore has fewer endorsements, but perhaps ones that might ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Shame on Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Az). I had just posted my rant about Henry Reid ramming his healthcare bill through with 3 days to read the 2074 pages of insults to the American taxpayer. I thought I would add a quote from one of my own ...</excerpt>
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