February 23, 2007
Audit: Anti-terror case data flawed
Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday.
Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases examined by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine were either diminished or inflated. Only two of 26 sets of department data reported between 2001 and 2005 were accurate, the audit found.
The numbers, used to monitor the department's progress in battling terrorists, are reported to Congress and the public and help, in part, shape the department's budget.
Acording to the Audit...
_Charges against a marriage-broker for being paid to arrange six fraudulent marriages between Tunisians and U.S. citizens.
_Prosecution of a Mexican citizen who falsely identified himself as another person in a passport application.
_Charges against a suspect for dealing firearms without a license. The prosecutor handling the case told auditors it should not have been labeled as anti-terrorism.
story by By Lara Jakes Jordan AP via TruthOut
~ Did the Justice Dept. get "terrorism" convictions and create legal precedents with some of these cases? Are there "terrorists" now in prison based on their "flawed data"? Can these prisoners now appeal their convictions?
What's today's terror-alert level?
>related: This list with links to "Bush-Cheney Administration's Lies About Terrorism Arrests": http://www.unknownnews.org/070220-terrorstats.html
>not related:
"After viewing over 18 hours of surveillance camera tapes from a convenience store in Boston and a "Chadors & More!" shop in Amman, a Bureau sketch artist has generated the following composite of what a typical male from the Middle East looks like.."
http://www.bettybowers.com/fbi.html#
Posted by Stubbornson at February 23, 2007 04:48 AM