Report: Feds Refusing FBI Terror Cases

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, The Associated Press
Nov 5, 2006 7:02 PM (1 day ago)
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years, according to private researchers who reviewed department records.

The government says the findings are inaccurate and "intellectually dishonest."

The report being released Monday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University raises questions about the quality of the FBI's investigations.