Edition: U.S. / Global   Published: May 25, 2003  Exactly how
has the Justice Department used its expanded powers to fight
terrorism?  Last week, the department released a 60-page report
shedding some light on the is sue.  Among the details:  * The
department is reviewing some 4,500 intelligence files in
terrorist cases to determine whether criminal charges should be
brought. Such a mingling of intelligence and criminal
investigations was generally banned before the terrorist attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.  * In the first year after the attacks,
Attorney General John Ashcroft approved 113 emergency
authorizations for secret foreign intelligence warrants for
electronic or physical surveillance, compared with fewer than 50
in the previous 23 years.  * The department sought 248 times to
delay having to notify the target of an investigation that a
warrant had been executed. The delays sometimes amounted to 90
days or more.  * The department held ''fewer than 50'' material
witnesses in terrorism investigations as of J