The military guys I know claim the feds have them classified as a terrorist org and treat them as such. The problems are politicians and sympathizers in the govt.
Primarily because defamation is a tort, or civil matter, not a criminal one. It's not a crime to lie about someone in the US legal tradition except in specific instances like fraud.
They were supposedly designated terrorists by DHS back in 2016 - before Trump was even elected. But the media screams bloody murder about it every time the idea gets mentioned, so who knows what the current status of that is.
The military guys I know claim the feds have them classified as a terrorist org and treat them as such. The problems are politicians and sympathizers in the govt.
You'd think there'd be some legislation to deal with terrorist-affiliated government officials. If not, there should be.
why not just arrest the media for mass defamation?
Primarily because defamation is a tort, or civil matter, not a criminal one. It's not a crime to lie about someone in the US legal tradition except in specific instances like fraud.