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” the report said. A Justice Department spokesman disputed the data highlighted by the Syracuse researchers, noting that terrorist hoax cases that were quickly dismissed may have been included in the government data. Additionally, some cases are referred to prosecutors to obtain subpoenas or other legal orders in investigations that ultimately never result in criminal charges, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said. He said prosecutors rejected 67 percent of FBI international terrorist cases in the nine-month period not 87 percent. The FBI’s assistant director, John Miller, said the low number of cases prosecuted reflects changes in how investigations have been conducted since the Sept. 11 attacks. He said about half of the FBI’s resources go to detection and information gathering of terrorist networks in cases that do not always result in arrests. “It’s not about the numbers and for TRAC to suggest as much is to be intellectually dishonest,” Miller said. He added: “The FBI has been very clea
