Last year, the number of incidents in 2003 was undercounted, forcing a revision of the report, “Patterns of Global Terrorism.” But other current and former officials charged that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s office ordered “Patterns of Global Terrorism” eliminated several weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush’s administration’s frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism.
Via Matthew Yglesias. I can understand the Bush administration placing their own self-interests above disseminating this information; that’s politics and I wasn’t born yesterday. What I can’t understand is how people can see this and continue to believe that stopping terrorism is anywhere near the top of the Bush agenda.