Juliette Kayyem
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"Juliette N. Kayyem" is former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and a former The Boston Globe/Boston Globe columnist, writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page. She is also a lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Prior to this, Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Kayyem has an extensive background in terrorism and national security affairs. Prior to her federal position, she served as Massachusetts' first Undersecretary for Homeland Security, where she was responsible for developing statewide policy on homeland security, with a focus on preventing, protecting, responding to, and recovering from any and all critical incidents.

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This is the only opportunity for the government to make a Sept. 11 case. This is it. There isn't another. The government has to cross every t and dot every i to ensure that the Sept. 11 families finally have their day in court. If it gets messed up over a technicality... there is no excuse.

This is about whether the criminal justice system has any role in the war on terror.