report on terrorism down; WRONG terrorism significantly UP

[seabeyond]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/10/powell.terror.report/index.html

april bushco put out a report saying terrorism was down and said what a good job they were doing as we all said WHAT. reality, terrorism is up and a new report is coming out. powell of course said it was just a mistake and not intentional, so..............

have they put any report out yet that hasnt been manipulated, or mistaken accidently or just flat out wrong

[Career Prole]

1. I'm sure we'll read about it...

...page A30 under "In Other News".

[whistle]

2. Holy cow, the BushCo's just keep on spinning and spinning....

<snip>

Uncorrected report says acts of terror lowest since 1969 --

The people who tabulated the report apparently did not look at the entire year and did not include attacks that should be defined as acts of terrorism, he said.

"So it seems like there were a variety of things like that ... and over here at State Department, we didn't check it out. We didn't check it or verify it sufficiently. We took the numbers. We did an analysis and we gave you what our assessment was."

The inaccurate report says 190 acts of international terrorism occurred in 2003 -- a slight drop from 198 attacks the previous year and the lowest total since 1969.

When the report was released, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Cofer Black, the State Department's ambassador at large for counterterrorism, extolled it at a news conference.

Armitage said nations around the world, along with the United States, are "successfully waging this campaign."

Black attributed the decrease in attacks to "unprecedented collaboration between the United States and foreign partners to defeat terrorism."

Seems that Powell and Richard Boucher are having to do a lot of back peddling again. I'm not optimistic that the corrected report will be out before the election. Wait, are those State Department officials having a fire burning all of the copies of the report? Thanks for the post.

[gulliver]

3. Just fuzzy math.

The Medicare bill cost, deficit effect of tax cuts, Iraq war cost and required troop strength, quantity of Iraqi WMDs, number of viable stem cell lines for research, ... these people are completely amazing.

[seabeyond]

4. i know htis isnt a report put out, but 2000 pages missing

accidently here recently from the torture report given to the investigation commission, yup. that too was really really people just an accident. not that they have gotten the 2000 pages yet

really an accident.

as employer i would be firing for all these accidents, could take a business down

[seabeyond]

5. kick

:)

[seabeyond]

6. kick

last time, for morning

[spanone]

7. This little gem appeared on page EIGHT of our local newspaper.

Lying Liars and their fucking Lies.

[Cocoa]

8. here are the Freepers gloating over the bad report

A representative sample, from back in April when the bogus report was published:


Why aren't these numbers all over the news? This report shows the liberals that President Bush is doing a better job on terror not only than their fair haired boy Clinton, but than the last five administrations.

How can we get these numbers more publicity?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136717/posts

[redqueen]

9. The Honorable Representative Waxman deserves credit

for getting the ball rolling on this.

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108_2/pdfs_inves/pdf_admin_global_terror_report_may_17_let.pdf

I love reading this letter. :7