Chesney, Monaco, McCord, and Rasmussen on Domestic Terrorism
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
A couple of weeks ago, Lawfare and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law sponsored a series of panels at the Texas Tribune Festival. For this episode, we bring you the audio of our Tribfest event on domestic terrorism—what it is, how we define it, how we outlaw it, and what more we can do about it.
David Priess sat down with Bobby Chesney, Lawfare co-founder and professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and former U.S. government officials Lisa Monaco, Mary McCord, and Nick Rasmussen.
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| 0:58.6 | There's no crime that applies to use of a weapon to commit a mass shooting to intimidate |
| 1:10.4 | our coerce if it's not tied to a foreign terrorist organization. |
| 1:14.0 | There's also no crime that would apply to stockpiling weapons, intending them to be used |
| 1:19.8 | in committing a mass shooting for ideological purposes and in order to intimidate and |
| 1:24.7 | coerce. |
| 1:25.7 | As I've conceded of a statute, and I've talked with a lot of people on Capitol Hill, I've |
| 1:30.7 | talked with civil rights and civil liberties groups. |
| 1:33.5 | I've talked with the privacy and civil liberties oversight boards. |
| 1:37.0 | The basic outline of this would be that you're criminalizing already existing crimes of |
| 1:41.3 | violence, things that could be prosecuted in state courts, murder, kidnapping, assault |
| 1:45.5 | with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault. |
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