Comments on: On expanding the term “terrorism” https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/expanding-term-terrorism/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:55:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/08/expanding-term-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-346598 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:55:43 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65841#comment-346598 I am glad that the FBI is trolling the Internet for jihadists *before* they succeed in killing someone, and that NSA (and foreign counterparts) are accumulating the data needed to solve terrorist attacks quickly. But we need a rigorous exclusionary rule to ensure equivalent-to-war snooping is not abused for domestic nonsense like wars on drugs, sex, or pornography.

I do not accept a narrow definition of terrorism as specific demands on the government. Any politically motivated attack on non-combatant civilians should qualify.

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