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Terror Prosecution Statistics Criticized by GOP Were Originally Touted by Bush Administration

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Over the last several days, an increasingly shrill chorus of GOP personalities has slammed the Obama administration for defending its decision to process accused Christmas underpants bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab through the civilian court system, rather than some kind of military tribunal. Republicans have gone so far as to suggest that the administration basically fabricated claims, articulated earlier this month in a letter sent to senators by Attorney General Eric Holder, that the Bush administration had successfully prosecuted more than 300 terrorists via civilian courts. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Judiciary Committee's top Republican, called Holder's statistic "unsubstantiated" and dared him to back it up: "If this figure is valid, why is the attorney general not willing to explain it?" Another prominent Senate Republican, John Kyl of Arizona, said that he had been bugging the administration since last year to substantiate such statistics, which he says were first were alluded to when President Obama, in a speech touting his plan to close the terrorist detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, talked about how civilian "supermax" prisons already hold "hundreds" of convicted terrorists. "It's a disingenuous argument," Kyl told the conservative Washington Examiner. Last week the Fox News Web site quoted Dana Perino, George W. Bush's former press secretary, snapping: "The 300 number is as false as false gets."

Apparently, the falsehood is Perino's, not the administration's. It turns out, according to official Justice Department records (which were made available to Declassified by a nonpolitical government official), there is at least a credible, if not rock-solid foundation for the administration's claim.

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