Article: Audit finds terror cases overstated.

Byline: Andrew Zajac

Feb. 21--WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors and the FBI have significantly overstated the number of terrorism-related investigations and prosecutions they pursue, according to a highly critical report released Tuesday by a Justice Department watchdog. The study by Inspector General Glenn Fine concluded that the overstatements occurred in large part because authorities counted offenses such as document and marriage fraud and immigration violations as terrorism-related even when there was no discernible tie to terror. Although the Justice Department and the FBI have reorganized since the Sept. 11 attacks to make preventing future attacks ...

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