Syracuse-based Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TRAC), a non-partisan group monitoring federal staffing, spending, and enforcement activities, recently posted this report covering referrals for prosecution in international and domestic terrorist cases. It is difficult for the American public to monitor the federal governments efforts to find and prosecute terrorists because of the necessary secrecy that surrounds the feds' anti-terrorist activities. With this in mind, TRAC obtained (under court order) 131 computer tapes "with data that offer the American people the most up-to-date and complete view ever available about how the government is enforcing the law against international and domestic terrorists." The data graphs, tables, and text available at this site are a sampling of findings about the 1,338 referrals classified as domestic or international terrorism-related from October 1996 through September 2001. These findings reveal that, during the years 1997-2000, there were between 40-60 referrals for prosecution involving international terrorism, but in 2001, this number jumped to 204. It also shows that federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against more than two out of three of the criminal suspects who they classified as being involved in domestic or international terrorism. The investigative agencies included the FBI; the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the US Marshal Service; the IRS; and many others.