“In March [1] 2005 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales summarized the FBI’s record by reporting to Congress that its counterterrorism effort ‘more than tripled’ since September 2001, ‘from 9,340 cases pending and received in the field to over 33,000 in FY [fiscal year] 2004.’ ”
– Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror, Page 35