Study finds fewer terror prosecutions
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The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before Sept. 11, according to a study based on Justice Department data.
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Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday.
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The terrorism alert level for financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington was lowered Wednesday from high or Code Orange, to elevated or Code Yellow.
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The British government said Wednesday that it had reduced the level of the terrorist threat facing the country from "critical" to "severe."
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Plans to increase the amount of time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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Records show the agency has taken a less aggressive approach toward policing drugs in the past four years.
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Fewer international visitors are coming to the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, despite an initiative announced a year ago by top government officials.
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed.
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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The Judiciary Committee sought to slow down the effort to pass legislation on the treatment of terror suspects.
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Big cities were less deadly places to live in 2004 as murder rates declined in several urban areas, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., according to a survey by The Associated Press.
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The shift in rhetoric about the dangers posed by terrorists during the inauguration marks the latest retreat from last year's terrorism warnings, which were based largely on faulty intelligence, dated information or an educated guess.
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The historic legal proceedings that the suspected al Qaeda terrorists will face have not been conducted by the U.S. government since World War II and are unlike anything most Americans face in the criminal justice system.
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The US government lowered the terrorism alert level for financial sites in New York City, Washington and northern New Jersey, because those buildings are now ``hardened,&#39;&#39; or sufficiently protected, an official said.
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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide appears to have fallen modestly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said yesterday.
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Justice Department prosecutions of international terrorism cases, which surged in volume after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, have nearly returned to the levels seen prior to the hijackings, according to an independent analysis of government data released yesterday.