FBI referrals going untried, report says
The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the last five years, according to researchers who reviewed department records. The government says the findings are inaccurate and “intellectually dishonest.”
The report being released today by Syracuse University raises questions about the quality of the FBI’s investigations.
Prosecutors declined to bring charges in 131 of 150 international terrorist case referrals from the FBI from October 2005 to June 2006, the report said.
The report says there have been steady increases since the 2001 budget year, when prosecutors rejected 33% of such cases.
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