Powell unhappy with 'big mistake' in terrorism report

[Kadie]

Published: Jun 13, 2004
Modified: Jun 13, 2004 10:17 AM

Powell unhappy with 'big mistake' in terrorism report

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - A State Department report that incorrectly showed a decline last year in terrorism worldwide was a "big mistake," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
He said he was working with the CIA, which helped to compile the data, to determine why the errors got into the report.

Powell said he planned a meeting on the issue Monday and that the intelligence agency was working through the weekend in preparation.

"I'm not saying it is responsible until I sit down with all of the individuals who had something to do with this report: CIA, my department, members of my department, other agencies that contributed to it," Powell said.

"It's a numbers error. It's not a political judgment that said, 'Let's see if we can cook the books.' We can't get away with that now. Nobody was out to cook the books. Errors crept in," he told ABC's "This Week."

more... http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/1431582p-8772301c.html

We can't get away with that now. LOL, Oh my.

[tabasco]

1. I'm unhappy with Powell and the lot of these crooks.

- At least he was forthright enough to indicate that they would cook the books if they could get away with it. The gall of these bums. Well, it looks like the "strategery" of Team Bush is to blame all the problems of the world on the CIA. I don't think that's gonna work for them.
- I won't be happy till I see this gang in orange jumpsuits.

[ScrewyRabbit]

2. It was all the fault of some low-level grunts

Management is never to blame, is it.

[sadiesworld]

3. Looks like someone didn't get Powell's "new morality" memo.

Unreal.

[Catfight]

4. That Republican noise machine sure is loud. Another fatal error

in this administration? And I was under the impression bush was surrounded by competent people. Guess he misjudged again, well, we know for sure, the people surely didn't make a mistake when they didn't vote him in. This is what America gets when the loser of the election takes control by brute force.

[salin]

5. Colin... watching his attempts to rehabilitate his credibility

go up in smoke... again. No sympathy for Sec. Powell - he hitched his wagon to these craven "stars"... didn't publically walk out and create a crisis by resigning rather than (knowingly) lie before the UN... Expect story after story, Colin, that WILL be leaked - and that will continue to tie your lot to that of the craven neoconbushies.

[BiggJawn]

Too bad, Colon. I'm unhappy with the "Big Mistake", too...

The big mistake you work for, laddie...Quit now, and spend the rest of your miserable life denouncing these criminals.

[justgamma]

6. They're starting to sound like Maxwell Smart.

Would you believe A? No? How about B? They release all these "facts", if they stick. great and if they don't. Oh well. It's just an oopsie.

[Toots]

7. "We can't get away with that now."

Should be the sound bite of the week. A brief flash of honesty sometimes slips out.

[mourningdove92]

8. I agree, Toots.

I would like to hear that played over and over....you know, kinda like they did the Dean scream.

[Bluzmann57]

9. Very good point

about the constant replaying of the "Dean Scream". Over and over and over...and you are correct, they should replay Powell's remark the same way. But something tells me that this may the last time its ever heard about again.

[steely]

15. That caught my eye too - as if it was OKAY before.

Not to catsigate him for one statement, but overall, he's become one the biggest letdowns in my book - man was I hoodwinked. He's either got zero self-respect (presuming he knows he's been used) or he's in with them (to a lesser degree - that is, to the extent they include him.)

I even allowed myself once to think he was fighting from within - call me gullible.

on edit change 'is' to 'or'

[dave29]

18. My jaw dropped

how freudian was that.

[SOS]

10. Mistake??

or more propaganda lies to help prop up Bush's failed presidency?

They thought, once again, that they wouldn't get caught.

Anyone who believed that "terrorism is down" must not read newspapers. Like Bush.

[leesa]

11. Running out of scapegoats FAST!

[LittleApple81]

12. Love your kitty Kat... n/t

[LittleApple81]

13. Well, THIS IS IT!!! I AM FED UP!!! KICK THE WHOLE BUNCH OUT!

Incompetetent criminals, Powell the bootlicker, finding scapegoats all the time!!! I AM FED UP!!!
I have been crying all over DU today (when I am speechless I just use the :cry: "smiley" and I have spread them out so liberally I cannot stand it anymore). IRAQIS ARE DYING BY THE DOZEN, AMERICANS ARE DYING BY THE DOZEN, WE HAVE LOST OUR MORAL COMPASS, WE ARE THROWING OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE DOWN THE DRAIN!!!!
KICK THESE AWFUL IMITATIONS OF HUMANITY OUT!!!!

[grasswire]

14. unbelievable

Can someone get a sound bite of that?

"We can't get away with that now."

[IggleDoer]

16. "The errors crept in"

So now we know the source of the lies. It wasn't Powell's fault. It wasn't the State Department's fault. It wasn't Rove's fault. It wasn't the fault of anyone in the administration. It wasn't even Clinton's fault or even the Clenis. Powell didn't even blame the dreaded "librul media."

Instead we have a dastardly army of errors sneaking into the report probably in the dead of night.

We need to declare a "War on Errorism"

[uhhuh]

17. War on Errorism

That is perfect!!!

Good one.