Sunday, September 03, 2006
THE REAL STORY OF THE WAR ON TERROR
An analysis of data from Justice Department's Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys found:
According to a study released Sunday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research group at Syracuse University:
Meredith Fuchs, general counsel at the National Security Archive at George Washington University, stated:
While the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies make a big splash in the media about arresting all those suspected terrorists to frighten and subdue U.S. citizens into complying with the new anti-terrorism measures, the U.S. government only pays lip service to actually prosecuting the real terrorists similar to the government's poor prosecution record of illegal immigrants.
James Dempsey, policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology stated, "We can't blame the FBI for pursuing those leads, but we can blame them and the Justice Department for arresting people and making a big media splash when things don't pan out."
EPILOGUE
It would seem that the FBI and Homeland Security now operate under a different philosophy from what our founding fathers intended. It is one of the unique characteristics that makes The United States of America a free country. It is the philosophy that a U.S citizen is innocent of a crime until proven guilty. The FBI and Homeland Security have changed that philosophy to guilty until proven innocent which is the mark of a Fascist police state.
What does this justice department data prove? That many of these "terrorist" arrests in fact have no basis since "...prosecutors found weak or insufficient evidence, no evidence of criminal intent or no evidence of federal crime" in 4 out of 10 cases with 9 out of 10 cases not being prosecuted!
Steve
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An analysis of data from Justice Department's Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys found:
_In the eight months ending last May, Justice attorneys declined to prosecute more than 9 out of every 10 terrorism cases sent to them by the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies. Nearly 4 in 10 of the rejected cases were scrapped because prosecutors found weak or insufficient evidence, no evidence of criminal intent or no evidence of federal crime.
_Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, only 14 people have been sentenced to 20 years or more in prison in terrorism cases. Of the 1,329 convicted defendants, only 625 received any prison sentence. More than half got no prison time or no more than they had already served awaiting their verdict.
According to a study released Sunday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research group at Syracuse University:
TRAC totaled the cases that prosecutors labeled as terrorism or antiterrorism no matter what charge was brought. It found only 14 prosecutions in fiscal 2000. That rose to 57 in fiscal 2001, which ended three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. The figure then soared to 355 in fiscal 2002. But by fiscal 2005 it dropped to 46. And in the first eight months of fiscal 2006, through last May, there were only 19 such prosecutions.
Meredith Fuchs, general counsel at the National Security Archive at George Washington University, stated:
The surge right after 9/11 make sense, but the drop-off so quickly means either a lot of that post-9/11 activity was not necessary or that they haven't identified key people or that key people in custody aren't being prosecuted.
While the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies make a big splash in the media about arresting all those suspected terrorists to frighten and subdue U.S. citizens into complying with the new anti-terrorism measures, the U.S. government only pays lip service to actually prosecuting the real terrorists similar to the government's poor prosecution record of illegal immigrants.
James Dempsey, policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology stated, "We can't blame the FBI for pursuing those leads, but we can blame them and the Justice Department for arresting people and making a big media splash when things don't pan out."
It would seem that the FBI and Homeland Security now operate under a different philosophy from what our founding fathers intended. It is one of the unique characteristics that makes The United States of America a free country. It is the philosophy that a U.S citizen is innocent of a crime until proven guilty. The FBI and Homeland Security have changed that philosophy to guilty until proven innocent which is the mark of a Fascist police state.
What does this justice department data prove? That many of these "terrorist" arrests in fact have no basis since "...prosecutors found weak or insufficient evidence, no evidence of criminal intent or no evidence of federal crime" in 4 out of 10 cases with 9 out of 10 cases not being prosecuted!
Steve
This article may be reproduced WITHOUT CHANGE and in its entirety for non-commercial and non-political purposes. ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
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