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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 10:17 AM
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2fer: So much for Alberto GONZALES's prosecution of "terror" cases
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GONZO and the other Shrubbite sockpuppets continually bang our brains about how they are KEEPING US SAFE. So the DOJ has refused prosecution in EIGHTY-SEVEN PERCENT of FBI referrals. Plus, the 2nd item is about how a DEAD BODY floated in the Rio Grande river, the SOUTHERN BORDER, and all of the dune buggies, horses, helicopters, extra Border Patrol personnel, the MINUTEMEN, Governor Goodhair's website cameras, and the other BILLIONS thrown down the RAT HOLE of "border security" ---were not able to find him for OVER A WEEK.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBI_PROSECUTIONS?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Report: Feds refusing FBI terror cases

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

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

(Department of Justice) Prosecutors declined to bring charges in 131 of 150, or 87 percent, of international terrorist case referrals from the FBI between October 2005 and June 2006, according to the report. The study was based on the most recent data available from the Justice Department's executive office for U.S. attorneys.

That number marks the peak of generally steady increases from the 2001 budget year, when prosecutors rejected 33 percent of such cases from the FBI, according to the report.

The data "raise troubling questions about the bureau's investigation of criminal matters involving individuals the government has identified as international terrorists," the report said. ....


http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=16265&Section=Local

MISSION — An unidentified male body was pulled from the Rio Grande on Sunday, a half-mile north of a private boat launch at the Chimney Park RV Resort.

The body could have been in the water for as long as a week, said Fire Chief Ricardo Salda ña. It was spotted floating near the American bank by a boater from a nearby riverside club, he said. Border Patrol agents reached the body first about 2:30 p.m. and assisted Mission authorities. ....

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