The NSPM-7 directive serves as an instructive framework that provides the executive branch with a legal justification for its actions.

“this both has the impact of of of the of creating a mentality amongst uh these uh feds and it also provides a legal framework for them or at least an instructive framework in which the way they should behave and some semblance at least from the leadership that they have justification for what they'r”

The NSPM-7 directive functions as a serious reorganization of the national security state based on criteria that cast an extremely broad net for domestic terrorism.

“it wasn't rhetoric. This was like a reorganization of the national security state around um, terrorism as defined by those uh, indicators I was just describing.”