Rebroadcast: Today's terror threats come from domestic extremists with Seth Jones

Seth Jones is a Senior Adviser at CSIS and terrorism researcher discusses the growing terror threat from domestic political extremists - a threat that played out in the assault of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021

This episode references:

The ABA President's Statement on the violence at the Capitol

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2021/01/statement-of-aba-president-patricia-lee-refo-re--violence-at-the/

"Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol in bid to overturn election" AP, January 7, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818

Senate Hearing "Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?" October 28, 2020

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/10/does-section-230-s-sweeping-immunity-enable-big-tech-bad-behavior

Seth Jones "The War Comes Home: The Evolution of Domestic Terrorism in the United States" October 22, 2020

https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-comes-home-evolution-domestic-terrorism-united-states

Hunting in the Shadows The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393081459

In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

https://www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Empires-Americas-War-Afghanistan/dp/0393338517

A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

https://www.amazon.com/Covert-Action-Reagan-Struggle-Poland/dp/0393247007

How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG741-1.html

Seth Jones is the Director of the Transnational Threats Project and a Senior Adviser in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studied (CSIS)

https://www.csis.org/people/seth-g-jones