Justice Dept. Misstates Its Terrorism Success Rate
"Federal prosecutors inflated their success in terrorism-related convictions last year by wrongly classifying almost half of them, the General Accounting Office has found."
"Over all, 132 of 288 convictions reported as international or domestic terrorism or terrorism-related hoaxes were found by investigators to have been wrongly classified as such for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the accounting office, the investigative arm of Congress, found...."
"The accounting office said the inaccuracies hampered Congress's "ability to accurately assess terrorism-related performance outcomes of the U.S. criminal justice system," information that would be crucial to such Congressional endeavors as approving the department's budget requests"
Update: You can access the full report here.
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