US law enforcement doesn't have the same tool kit to fight domestic terror that it can use to fight international terror, say legal experts and ex-FBI agents. - annaschecter
Following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government took an aggressive stance toward preventing and punishing acts of Islamist-inspired violence inside U.S. borders, defining it as"international terrorism." The FBI was given a wide range of tools and resources to investigate and prosecute individuals who provide material support or resources to one of the 68 designated international terrorist groups, including the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda.
According to the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, there were 84 indictments related to ISIS or Al Qaeda in 2015. The number of comparable indictments for 2018 was 15, a significant drop. Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department, is advocating for a change in the law that would put domestic terrorism on the same"moral plane" as international terrorism and direct more resources toward preventing the domestically based terror threat.
Former FBI agent David Gomez, who has worked both domestic and international terrorism cases, calls himself"a pragmatist and a practitioner," and says some domestic terrorism cases have been handled by state prosecutors as murder, drug or fraud cases because it was the best way to get the longest sentence.
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