May 26, 2003

Bushies inflated reports of terror crimes
In the first two months of this year, the Justice Department filed charges against 56 people, labeling all the cases as "terrorism."

But an Inquirer investigation has found that at least 41 of them had nothing to do with terrorism - a point that prosecutors of the cases themselves acknowledge.

The problems are nothing new. In January, the General Accounting Office reported that three-fourths of all "international terrorism" convictions were wrong in fiscal 2002. The GAO audit, opened in response to a Dec. 16, 2001, Inquirer article, said the exaggeration was serious because it prevented Congress and the public from understanding how much taxpayer money was being spent to prosecute terrorism. - link.

Or to the lengths the misadministration would go to try to keep the public scared sh*tless.



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