Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty defended the fact that counter-terrorism programs have effectively set up a dragnet in which over half of those arrested have no connection whatsoever [1] to terrorism by saying that:
The enforcement of immigration laws, identity theft, identity related laws, financial support, security access - enforcement of crimes associated with those issues is important even if there isn't information specifically tying a particular subject to a national security threat. Why? Because those systems are so vital to us in securing our country, and it's the exploitation of those systems that we have seen as a method of operation for terrorism.  So we do put some emphasis on making sure that - and I would say renewed emphasis or special emphasis in recent years in going after things like document fraud crime.
Video here [2]. So basically, anybody that poses a threat to the System, whatever that means, is fair game under the terrorism laws. Anybody who voted for Bush in 2004 asked for a police state and that's exactly what they got. Any they're dragging the rest of us along for the ride.
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Links:
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402423.html?nav=rss_nation
[2] http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1350,filter.all,type.upcoming/event_detail.asp
[3] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehindsightfactor.com%2Fdont_mess_with_the_system&linkname=Don%27t%20mess%20with%20the%20System