The new issue of the ABA Journal presents a “scorecard” evaluating the Justice Department’s terrorism-related prosecutions. By the Journal‘s count, the DoJ has 31 wins, six losses and one tie. That is a better record that I would have guessed — even more so because the Journal counts a case as a “loss” if it resulted in a conviction, but not on the grounds that a defendant was involved with the Taliban or al Qaeda. Less favorable is the ABA Journal‘s tally of the results of over 10,000 federal investigations into terrorism related activities. Both charts are interesting, but I am skeptical as to whether either one is an accurate representation of progress or lack thereof.