Terrorist propaganda serves myriad purposes, including promoting a culture that helps the groups maintain coherence, justify controversial actions, and caricature the enemy. These groups also use terror to provoke their targets into disproportionate responses that radicalize populations and provide new potential pools of recruits. Terrorist sympathizers may share a common cause with the group and—through propaganda, peer influence, or other factors—cross the line from freedom of speech and freedom of association to something far more dangerous, as in the case of Jamshid Muhtorov. In this case, the U.S. government used all available tools at its disposal and, according to critics, skirted legal safeguards in the process. This case raises several interesting issues that will be discussed, including search and seizure, foreign intelligence surveillance, and foreign terrorist designation…
20200511 NatSecJournal – Terrorist Propaganda in the Case of Jamshid Muhtorov (Newbold)
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