The U.S. Government Is The Number Of Convictions Obtained TERRORISM

Naturally, the Justice Department likes to trumpet the convictions of terrorists. Otherwiselaunch a major advertising and enable people to sleep comfortably at night, this means more money for the department. The problem is that the numbers are a farce.


The story began when the Philadelphia Inquirer examined the belief that the legal framework Department said that terrorism involved in the five years ending September 30, 2001 May.They found ridiculous examples of misclassification:

In one striking example, a U.S. assistant attorney San Francisco asked the district judgeMarilyn H. Patel on Monday to tighten Arizona man was convicted of drunk on a United Airlines flight from Shanghai, repeatedly rang the call button, requires more alcohol, and put his hands on a stewardess. Justice Department records show the case
as "domestic terrorism".

In another case, "fighting the eviction of the tenant called the landlord, impersonated an FBI agent, and said that the agency does not want the tenant evicted. The man recognized the voice and donor called the real FBI. "

Another "terrorist" incidents included prisoners rioting for better food, "former court employee who shoved and threatened a judge, "and" [s], although the Chinese sailors [who] were convicted resume a Taiwanese fishing boat and sail in the U.S. to Guam, where they hoped To obtain political asylum. "

After this conspiracy was exposed, the Republican Congressman Dan Burton asked the General Accounting Office - a unit that examines the issues of government is not partisan Congress - to consider the Justice Department alleged conviction for terrorism. Indeed, the GAO indicated that the situation is not as rosy as we said.

In the years after 9 / 11 - from September 30, 2001, on that date the following year - Justice Department said that 288 terrorists have been convicted in the United States for their heinous crimes. But the GAO found that at least 132 of these cases (about 42 per cent) had nothing to do with to terrorism. Because the methodology of the GAO has not reviewed all of the other 166 words, it refers to its accuracy as "doubtful."

The disappointment is even worse when you approach the cases classified as "international terrorism, "which is the most sensational of all. of 174 such sentences, 131 (a astonishing 75 per cent) was not really about terror. After all this humiliation, the Justice Department should have cleaned up their act, right? This is what told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Well, the monitoring role on "terrorism" in the first case two months of 2003. Of the 56 federal cases allegedly related to terrorism, were at least 41 false. Eight of them involved Puerto Ricans protest use of Vieques as a naval attack area. The prosecutor dealing with these cases, says he does not know because they have been classified such as terrorism. Similarly, 28 Latinos arrested for working at airports with false papers, and U.S. attorney spokesman said they were not suspects, including terrorism.

The most ridiculous, "a Middle Eastern man indicted in Detroit for allegedly passing NSF has the same name as the leader of Hezbollah. "

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