See No Evil

[kmack]

See No Evil: In one of her first acts as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice decreed that data on worldwide terrorist attacks be excluded from the State Department's annual report "Patterns of Global Terrorism." But in a closed-door session before Congress on April 25th, Rice's deputies conceded that 2004 saw a "dramatic uptick" in global terrorism -- with the number of "significant attacks" increasing nearly fivefold, to 650. The numbers for Iraq -- which saw terrorist attacks leap ninefold -- failed to include more than 100 strikes on U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians. Rice's office insisted that the terror data is not "relevant," provoking a sharp rebuke from Rep. Henry Waxman. "With all due respect," he said, "this is a ludicrous position."

go go gadget....source!

it seems ignorance is bliss for Condi...

 

[Direwolf]

Well whats their side of the argument? Whats the specific reasons these attacks were ruled out?

 

[kmack]

Well whats their side of the argument? Whats the specific reasons these attacks were ruled out?

i wish i knew

 

[PickledGecko]

Well whats their side of the argument? Whats the specific reasons these attacks were ruled out?

Well, it would look bad. I mean, the whole point of the "War on Terror" was to stop terror, not be the direct cause of at least a 3x increase.

 

[Direwolf]

Supposedly, but I doubt thats whats written on the report. Assumably they had at least a justification for the ommission. I'm curious whether it was a reasonable one or not. I'm not exactly one to trust in the sarcastic comment of a single random senator.