Posted on 03/26/20
| News Source: Arutz-7
"Such acts potentially could implicate the Nation's terrorism-related statutes," DOJ memo posits.
A DOJ memo recommends those who intentionally try to spread coronavirus be tried for terrorism.
The memo bearing Tuesday’s date came after terror charges were announced against a New Jersey man who allegedly coughed on a grocery store employee and told her that he had coronavirus.
"Because coronavirus appears to meet the statutory definition of a 'biological agent,'" Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen explained in the memo, "such acts potentially could implicate the Nation's terrorism-related statutes."
"Threats or attempts to use COVID-19 as a weapon against Americans will not be tolerated.”
The recommendation was just one in a series offered to prosecutors in the memo on how to deal with fraudulent and criminal behavior capitalizing on the Covid-19 crisis. Read more at Arutz-7