Multimedia Resources
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Video Links
Video 1: www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/blumenthal-this-meeting-is-evidence-of-criminal-intent-991815747936
Description: Blumenthal: This meeting is evidence of criminal intent
Video 2: www.nbcnews.com/watch/nightly-news/fast-and-furious-agent-speaks-out-44453955882
Description: In his first TV interview, an agent at the center of the botched “Fast and Furious” gun trafficking operation tells NBC’s Michael Isikoff that he was told he needed more evidence of criminal intent before the gun buyers could be charged with anything
Audio Links
Description: “There is not going to be a neat ending,” New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin says of the investigation into Russian meddling. A central issue is whether a sitting president can be criminally indicted
Audio 2: www.npr.org/2015/11/25/457341937/effort-to-change-system-for-nonviolent-drug-criminals-hits-snag
Description: Effort to change system for nonviolent drug criminals hits snag
Web Links
Web 1: www.mackinac.org/19579
Description: Strict liability and public welfare offenses
Web 2: www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/will-congress-reform-criminal-intent/544014/
Description: A debate over mens rea stalled the last push for reform. Now, a similar battle could be brewing