Since the 9/11 terror attacks the FBI has adopted a strategy of attempting to nip potential terrorist plots in the bud by bringing prosecutions against suspected terrorists based on relatively sparse evidence of criminal conspiracy. This strategy, the FBI contends, has prevented possible future terrorist attacks, but it has resulted in very few convictions, creating a new set of difficult choices for law enforcement and a new set of potential dangers for civil liberties.
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