Karen Greenberg was quoted in a VOA news article where she spoke about the leniency in the sentencing of homegrown U.S. terrorists in recent years.
“They still want to pursue these terrorism cases, but there is a sense that these younger individuals may not rise to the danger level of some of those who fit a criminalized pattern,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law in New York.
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Case in point: Saddam Mohamed Raishani, 30, was arrested at New York’s JFK Airport last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey. He had told an FBI informant how he had earlier helped an acquaintance travel overseas to join IS and regretted not having gone along with him.
Raishani “may really have wanted to go” without any enticement by the informant, said Greenberg of the Center for National Security.
As in criminal cases, cooperation with prosecutors can mean leniency for some terror suspects.