White House Eliminates Annual Security Report

In keeping with the Bush policy of not letting "reality-based" news leak to the public, the administration has decided to no longer release its' annual terrorism report. The Seattle Times reports that The State Department will not let the rest of us know the real truth that found that terrorist attacks had increased every year since 1985. In the report "Patterns of Global Terrorism" reportedly ordered eliminated by Secretary of State Condleezza Rice, the newest statistics for 2004 are said to dispute Bush's claim of progress on his "War on Terrorism". Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office ordered the report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism," eliminated weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush administration's frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism. "Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public," charged Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department terrorism expert who first disclosed the decision to eliminate the report in The Counterterrorism Blog, an online journal. Mr. Johnson's journal describes itself as "The first multi-expert blog dedicated solely to counterterrorism issues, serving as a gateway to the community for policymakers and serious researchers. Designed to provide realtime information about cases and policy developments". The Seattle Times story goes on to say The numbers of incidents and fatalities in the report for 2003 were undercounted last year, forcing a revision and embarrassing the White House, which had used the original version to bolster Bush's election-campaign claim that the Iraq war had advanced the fight against terrorism. President Bushs' approval ratings, which have been dropping steadily in the last few months, mainly due to his self-enforced involvement in the Terri Schiavo case, the push for Social Security reform, and a damaging economic outlook, would most certainly be damaged further if this report were to see the light of day. So as usual, self interest takes precedent over the safety of the American public. Feel safer now America? Everything is just fine in that fantasy-based country called "Bush's America". Maybe we should rename it "NeverLand Two".