Information developed during and after the Chicago case has resulted in the execution of several national security warrants permitting electronic intercepts of key suspects here and overseas, the officials said. In several instances, the FBI and other U.S. agencies have decided to forego arrests or indictments and instead have secretly disrupted Hamas activities so that agents could continue to monitor suspects and the flow of their money, officials said.
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The officials said FBI supervisors and Justice Department prosecutors jointly decided to forgo some actions, such as prosecutions of smaller players, so that agents would not jeopardize ongoing counter-intelligence gathering operations authorized under sensitive national security warrants.
Is that better than the < /sarcasm > thing?
someone "profits" when crimes go down. if there weren't as much crime, gee whizz, wouldn't be much use for the hundreds of thousands of cops, would there be? Lotta judges playing checkers like the maytag repair guy, lotta lawyers might actually have to do something besides talking for a living, lot of cops might have to pound nails or something like that for a living. Whattashame if the actual criminals were actually arrested, and if the stupid laws were removed and terrorists weren't allowed into the country. We might not need the patriot act, or the war on terrorism, if there just wasn't any terrorism from the actual badguys getting arrested and stopped from using the US as their biggest base..