Wittes: Terrorism victims generally share ethnicity and religion with their perpetrators
Benjamin Wittes · a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare · Jan 2, 2019 · at 20:40
Benjamin Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare, discusses the intersection of national security, immigration policy, and counter-terrorism.
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“Generally speaking, the victims of terrorists have the same ethnicities and religious backgrounds as the terrorists who kill them,”
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