While serving as a Coast Guard lieutenant, Christopher Hasson made plans to kill “journalists, Democratic politicians, professors, Supreme Court justices and those he described as ‘leftists in general.’” On Jan. 31, 2020, he pled guilty to drug- and firearm-related offenses, receiving thirteen years in jail.
Despite describing Hasson as a domestic terrorist, federal prosecutors chose these more minor charges due to the fact that no domestic terrorism statute currently exists. The Coast Guard, for its part, also lacked more precise legal means to address Hasson’s crimes. As an active-duty Air Force military judge, I have seen firsthand a rising populationThe post Creating a Codified Legal Response to Domestic Extremism in the Ranks appeared first on War on the Rocks.