A new study from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University cautions that the inability of federal agencies to agree on exactly what is meant by “terrorist” is “weakening efforts to use the criminal law to combat terrorism and at the same time undermining civil liberties.”
The study looked at 8,900 cases referred by federal investigators for prosecution, noting that in nearly 6,000 instances the case was closed without any action citing lack of evidence or criminal intent.
It also found that among those referred as “terrorists” which were actually charged in federal court over a third of them were not charged with any crimes related to terrorism and were categorized as having “no connection to terrorism” by prosecutors.
The trend is actually growing. which TRAC sees as a “disturbing” sign, noting that while only 31% of referrals in 2002 failed to result in prosecution 73% of those in 2008 ended that way.
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Good God Almighty! I raised this exact same isue eight years ago!
I question a lot of these charges particularly when the government furnishes the explosives for a teenager and than charges the kid with being a terrorist .The kid is guilty but so is the government creating situations for entrapment . Seems to me they entraped murtha that way taking bribes from some phoney middle east buisnessman , Now they have entraped Acorn with underage slave prostitutes from south of mexicoe . This is good way to get some carrer political criminals in hot water , but it is unethical