State Dept. Concedes Errors in Terror Data

[radfringe]

State Dept. Concedes Errors in Terror Data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29664-2004Jun9.html
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page A17

Two months ago, the Bush administration released its annual report card on counterterrorism and gave itself an A. The number of terrorist attacks around the globe, according to the State Department report called "Patterns of Global Terrorism," was at the lowest ebb in the past 34 years.

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Not long afterward, however, the report was pilloried by academics, a lawmaker and others. They said its math defied the reality of a steady growth in the number and significance of terrorist attacks in 2003, as well as the worst type of attacks spreading from just a few countries to at least 10.

The Congressional Research Service cited the complaints in a June 1 report urging a review of the report's "structure and content." Rep. Henry A. Waxman (Calif.), senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, said in a May 17 letter to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that "it is deplorable that the . . . report would claim that terrorism attacks are decreasing when in fact significant terrorist activity is at a 20-year high."

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When you read the report, TTIC did not add properly. Even a third-grader could have found this," Johnson said. "The body counts in 2002 and 2003 were at the highest levels in history."

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geee, must have been using that "fuzzy math" system again...

meanwhile -- sort of related to flip-flops, how many times has bush* inc. had to sheepishly correct themselves, backtrack and re-spin a story?

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. We all said this when this report came out...

Fascists....they just write reports they want to hear.

This isn't a democracy...

[izzie]

4. It must have been out so Bush could say it.

It was a joke when it came out?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. So the original story gets front page

and a lot of us around were calling them on their BS, then during Ronniepalooza, they put out the retraction hoping no one will notice.

[kentuck]

3. Just a little white lie....

A record number of terrorist attacks does not look like "progress"..

[gristy]

5. So many criminals. So few sheriffs.

I just can't keep up any more.

[lil-petunia]

6. Sarcasm expressed below.

It's not backtracking on stories, it's called "fine tuning the message"

Black is white
Peace is war
Bush is Reagan

[yellowcanine]

10. Invasion of Eyerack is D-Day landing. 9-11 is Pearl Harbor. Bush is

FDR. Bush is Teddy Roosevelt. Bush is Harry Truman. Bush is Poppy Bush. Bush is George Washington crossing the Delaware. Bush is Lincoln. Bush is Jeff Davis. Bush is John Wilkes Booth.

[struggle4progress]

7. Give the Bush administration high marks ...

for lying about its "war on terror"

[Just Me]

12. Along with their perpetual war, they are in a perpetual cover-up,...

,...of a long list of intentional propagate.

[Bandit]

8. when in fact significant terrorist activity is at a 20-year high."

"when in fact significant terrorist activity is at a 20-year high." Are we safer now Saddam is gone. The US Government doesn't think so.

[Just Me]

9. EW! Those terror errorists are an enemy to democracy!!!

:argh:

[Snellius]

11. It's so reassuring having Young Republicans running things

There was an article in the Post last week about how, to insure the loyalty of those in the U.S. administration of Iraq, the Bushies were limiting applicants to young true-believers who had posted their resumes with the conservative Heritage Foundation. Kids straight out of Brigham Young University, who couldn't balance their check book, sent to rebuild the financial infrastructure of Iraq. One assumes that all upper level apointments are filled this way with happy, god-fearing, white-bread Bush Jugend, marching as to war.

[bobbieinok]

19. probably NOT Brigham Young - that's Mormon

more likely Falwell's Liberty U, P Robertson's Regents U, Calvin College, Wheaton College, Dallas Baptist, Oral Roberts U, etc

IOW, conservate 'christian' colleges, some pentecostal/charismatic

[really-looney]

13. BIG STORY KICK

Once again the Administration LIES

[Streetdoc270]

17. Ahh but you forget...

Only Clinton Lies, Bush "misspeaks". /sarcasam

[Thor_MN]

14. No right winger left behind.

Maybe some of them should have repeated a grade or three.

[tabasco]

15. Waxman caught them LYING! Again!

When is the Congress starting the impeachment?

[Just Me]

16. Here is a crazy notion: I have NOT been politically active,...

,...until fairly recently,...had no interest in ever becoming a part of that business. I actually avoided it in order to maintain my center upon "the people". I have lived a life of dedication to human potential.

I am a human being. I am a citizen living amongst REAL people.

We have been BETRAYED. WE HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!!!

Worse,...our treasure and BLOOD, our very lives, are being sacrificed at the economic fucking pleasure of a few human beings who literally view the rest of us as something,...beneath them,...something to serve their greedy causes which leave the rest of humanity behind!!!! DAMN!!!!

DAMN. :argh:

[Cocoa]

18. a cartoon on this...