So are drug traffickers and illegal marriage brokers, according statistics released by federal prosecutors. However, in a 160-page audit report released Tuesday (.pdf), the Justice Department demurs:

We determined that the FBI, EOUSA [Executive Office for United States Attorneys], and the Criminal Division did not accurately report 24 of the 26 statistics we reviewed.

We are concerned that EOUSA’s view of the anti-terrorism category permits criminal cases arising from virtually any federal law enforcement effort, including immigration violations or border enforcement activities, to be categorized as anti-terrorism regardless of the actual circumstances. In our review of the statistics reported by EOUSA, we looked for and accepted any stated terrorism linkage. However, we found many cases involving offenses such as immigration violations, standard document fraud, or drug trafficking, where the subject or target showed no link at all to terrorist activity. Therefore, in accordance with EOUSA’s anti-terrorism definition, we did not accept those cases as having support for coding in the anti-terrorism category.

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Congress and the Department management also use terrorism-related statistics to make operational and funding decisions for Department counterterrorism activities, and to support the Department’s annual budget requests.

Funding for the programs has nothing to do with it, officials insist. In fact, there’s no malfeasance to be found and the problems have already been mostly fixed. From the AP…

The office has since agreed to change the way it counts and classifies anti-terrorism cases, said [EOUSA] department spokesman Dean Boyd.

“The notion that the Justice Department intentionally inflated its statistics is false and flatly contradicted by the OIG report itself,” Boyd said.

In all but one area, Criminal Division prosecutors either accurately stated or underreported their data — the ones the department usually uses in public statements about its counterterror efforts, Boyd noted.