Rice Erases Terror Scoreboard - Nixes 20 yr old report on terror!

[cyberpj]

"The report, which has been published annually for the past 20 years, was an ongoing source of embarrassment for the Bush Administration."

So just get rid of it, right?

"According to Johnson and U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the issue, statistics that the National Counterterrorism Center provided to the State Department reported 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004.

That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades.

The statistics didn't include attacks on American troops in Iraq, which President Bush as recently as Tuesday called "a central front in the war on terror."

The intelligence officials requested anonymity because the information is classified and because, they said, they feared White House retribution. Johnson declined to say how he obtained the figures."

http://www.progressive.org/webex05/wx041805.php

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm

[jandrok]

1. No news is good news.

Pretty much par for the course, these days, at least where this administration is concerned.

Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.

[louis-t]

2. It just goes on and on doesn't it?

How does the right spin this away? I don't get it.

[cyberpj]

3. I know -

They get away with so much it makes me not want to bother posting anymore but then I remember that's what they want so I keep at it.

I WANT MY INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM BACK!!!

[Vickers]

4. Memory hole, here we come!

:headbang:

[Old and In the Way]

5. The whole centerpiece of this administration's existance is based on

the War on Terror. Without a scorecard, how are we going to know when we won?

Really, what a joke this administration is. Totally a bunch of criminals.

[Inland]

6. Bush succeeds! No reported terror incidents in 2005!

Well, it's true, isn't it? Do you see a report on terror? No? Then shut your pie hole!

[cyberpj]

7. shouldn't we nominate this so it appears to more DUers who can

spread the word and question the media on this?

Just a thought.

[calimary]

9. Yes. I just did. But it needs more than just one vote.

:)

[cyberpj]

11. thank calimary! would love to get this on the greatest page since

so few seem to know about it and it's certainly not getting and corporate media coverage.

[manly]

8. quoting who?

Paragraphs 1 and 3 are unattributed quotes. Are we to assume they are from Condo Rice just because her name appears in the title? Please clarify.

[cyberpj]

10. use the links supplied and read the articles - you will see the quotes.

the quotation marks do not refer to remarks by Rice but by the author of the article. I neglected to include the quotes on the remarks from the second article, however both are indicated with the links that I included in the original post.