Question: The Montana Freemen engaged in a standoff with the FBI, Catherine Wessinger was a professor that served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during this, at which school did she work?

Catherine Wessinger is a professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans with a main research focus on millennialism, new religions, women and religion and religions of India.  Wessinger is co-general editor of and served as a consultant to federal law enforcement during the Montana Freemen standoff. <SEP>  They became the center of public attention in 1996 when they engaged in a prolonged armed standoff with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Montana Freemen were an anti-government Christian Patriot movement group based outside the town of Jordan, Montana.  The members of the group referred to their land as "Justus Township" and had declared themselves no longer under the authority of any outside government. <SEP> The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act of 1999 (CESA) is a bill proposed by the Clinton administration during the 106th United States Congress that enables the government to harvest keys used in encryption.  The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act gives law enforcement the ability to gain access to encryption keys and cryptography methods.  The initial version of this act enabled federal law enforcement agencies to secretly use monitoring, electronic capturing equipment and other technologies to access and obtain information.  These provisions were later stricken from the act, although federal law enforcement agencies still have a significant degree of latitude to conduct investigations relating to electronic information.  The act generated discussion about what capabilities should be allowed to law enforcement in the detection of criminal activity.  After vocal objections from civil liberties groups, the administration backed away from the controversial bill. <SEP> Civil forfeiture in the United States, also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture or occasionally civil seizure, is a controversial legal process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.  While civil procedure, as opposed to criminal procedure, generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and "property" such as a pile of cash or a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime.  To get back the seized property, owners must prove it was not involved in criminal activity.  Sometimes it can mean a threat to seize property as well as the act of seizure itself.  In 2015, Eric Holder ended 'adoptive forfeiture' which occurred "when a state or local law enforcement agency seizes property pursuant to state law and requests that a federal agency take the seized asset and forfeit it under federal law" due to abuse.  States proceeded to curtail the powers of police to seize assets, actions by the justice department in July 2017 have sought to reinstate police seizure powers to raise funding for federal agencies and local law enforcement.