Jeff Landry: “This amendment turns the global fight on terror into a CSI investigation. On its face, the supporters will say exactly…”

“This amendment turns the global fight on terror into a CSI investigation. On its face, the supporters will say exactly, but let's see the results. The mission of those who fight the war on terror, now it's how do we prevent acts of terror from inflicting billions of dollars of damages to save lives? You see, our law enforcement and prosecutorial system in this country is, by nature, an after-the-fact determination, meaning, we rarely have the ability to arrest a potential murderer until after he commits the crime. The deterrent is the length of the sentence for the murder that deters people from trying to harm or kill another. That's not the case in terrorism. We set the punishment level to the severity of the crime. But the level under terrorism, there's no known level. What deters a person from flying a plane into a building? So how does passing this amendment protect the furtherance of that crime or would we simply be satisfied with investigating after the fact?”