Disconnected Rumblings

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Terrorism Report Suppression

Short post tonight. I just wanted to point out this article:

Data kept out of terror report shows 'dramatic uptick' in attacks
"Data withheld from an annual report on terrorism issued by the US State Department shows a sharp increase in the number of attacks last year in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, a leading Democratic lawmaker charged.

'According to the data being concealed from the public, global terror attacks were more than three times higher in 2004 than the record levels set in 2003,' Representative Henry Waxman wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, asking that the information be restored to the department's annual report 'Patterns of Global Terrorism.'"
So my question is why suppress this report? It doesn't make any sense, if we are going to fight this war on terrorism, we need the data to know if we are making any progress.
"Earlier this month, the US State Department said it had decided not to publish annual statistics on the number of terror attacks and casualties, after discrepancies were found in figures released last year documenting attacks that had occurred in 2003."
Ok so since last year's report had problems, just stop releasing the findings? Nope, not right.

Oh man I wish I had more time to write on a bigger issue. Why republicans think THEY are the victims of the uber powerful Left. But that will have to be later this week.
posted by digitaljay @ 10:29 PM MST

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